Projects

In Spring 2015 Women & Theatre brought together a talented group of boys from different walks of life to create a new theatre production called Boys Talk. Staged at mac birmingham’s Outdoor Arena, the production was engaged with celebrating male communication using movement, drama and spoken word.

Women’s Work is a theatre and heritage project centred around the experiences of women working in factories during WWI, including the Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) factory in Small Heath.

In January 2011, Women & Theatre moved premises to The Old Lodge at the Uffculme Centre, a site owned by Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust. This marked the start of a formalised partnership with BSMHFT, which has seen us develop collaborative drama-based work that engages both service users and staff.

Women give freely of their life experiences to try to make sense of their own past, present and futures, and to help others by suggesting strategies for change to those who are currently struggling with challenges that they themselves have faced and overcome.

Developed in partnership with Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, and created from research with patients, carers and families, All of Me uses theatre, music and discussion to highlight the benefits that remembering together makes to the here and now, using the principles of Life Story work.

We find the form is an effective way of presenting a multitude of voices, including people of different ages, experiences, opinions and cultural backgrounds – elements of which resonate with audiences as they recognise and relate to different aspects of the material.

Women & Theatre regularly deliver community comedy courses which engage a wide variety of different groups of all ages and backgrounds.

Created as a celebration of the company’s thirty-year anniversary, For the Past 30 Years shone a light on the experiences of women, who have spent the last three decades working in Theatre, Health, Community, Probation, Education and Business sectors.