The Word Lounge 2 – performance event
Tickets for The Word Lounge 2 are now on sale! Don’t miss this dynamic performance event featuring new music, spoken word, comedy and drama, created by young artists from across the region. Exploring a range of subject matter driven by the passions & priorities of artists from diverse backgrounds and experiences, The Word Lounge 2 promises an […]
Volunteer opportunity – April-July 2017
We have an opportunity for 2 individuals to join us for a new project working with women in Sparkbrook. Open Doors is a storytelling project capturing the experiences of real women and developing them into a high quality production that will be performed at mac birmingham in July. Volunteers will support the creative team during the research, […]
TUC Annual Women’s Conference
The Trades Union Congress – Annual Women’s Conference took place in early March and featured speeches, talks and discussions on the progress on women in the work place. There were around 350 delegates present showing support and solidarity for TUC Women. Women and Theatre performed ‘Sorry’, a monologue written by Susie Sillet from the performance Starting […]
New Year Honour for Artistic Director
We are absolutely delighted that our Artistic Director Janice Connolly has been awarded a British Empire Medal for her services to Community Arts in the West Midlands. Janice says “What a huge and fantastic honour this is, I am overwhelmed and delighted. I share this honour with all of the artists, staff, partners and participants I […]
Unite – CPHVA Conference
This month, Women and Theatre stopped by at the Unite Community Practitioners’ & Health Visitors’ Association (CPHVA) Conference in Telford. Jean Pickles spoke about what it really means to be a health visitor. Following on from the rallying speech monologues based on true accounts from health visitors and school nurses across the nation were read […]
‘Starting Out’ – London opening
‘Painfully naked honesty from a kickass female cast. Thank you for telling our stories’ ‘The writing resonated with the young people’s experiences and gave it an authenticity which is hard to deny.’ ‘I haven’t seen a piece of theatre so magnificent, electrifying and current as this in a long time. ‘ With fantastic reviews from […]
Meet our ‘Starting Out’ cast
Meet our lovely cast members for our new production Starting Out which opens at The REP on Wednesday 12 October. From left to right – Jalleh Alizadeh, Luanda Holness, Phoebe Brown, Katerina Demetraki and our new W&T Artistic Intern Rosalyn Norford. A series of monologues written by five of the UK’s most exciting playwrights, Starting Out […]
Artistic Intern opportunity
We are delighted to be able to offer another Artistic Internship position this September through funding from the Creative Employment Programme. This paid Internship offers a creative individual the chance to gain professional experience, working with an award-winning theatre company on all aspects of project delivery including performance, stage management, workshop delivery and project-related administration. […]
New performance piece from young people
The Word Lounge – a new cabaret performance created and performed by young people – will premiere on Saturday 2 July 2016. Looked After Young People, Young Carers and YP with additional learning needs, aged 11-18, have come together to create this performance which includes spoken word, original songs, dance and drama, and explores the […]
We’re running the Birmingham 10k!
Janice, Jess and Beth are running the Birmingham 10k on Sunday 7 May, to raise money for our new monologue project, Starting Out, which will look at the experiences of and prospects for young women entering the world of work now. If you are able to donate, please visit our fundraising page at justgiving.com/womenandtheatrerunners and […]
