The Curve theatre was full of people watching Leicester City Football Club’s victory parade this week. Lyn Gardner wonders if the venue can cement itself as equally important to the city in coming years.
“Why can’t theatre be more like football?” said a man to me on Sunday afternoon. It was a good question to be asking at Leicester’s Curve theatre in an informal afternoon of conversation, tea, cake and party games hosted by the Curve and the Brick Box as part of the Guardian and Battersea Arts Centre’s A Nation’s Theatre conversations and Curve’s Inside Out festival, promoting the work of local artists and companies. The festival ended with a performance of All Out, created by the excellent Common Wealth, with local people of all ages, which was put together in just five days and performed in the multi-storey car park next to the theatre, providing a fragile and touching snapshot of the hopes and dreams of a city.... Keep reading on The Guardian
“Why can’t theatre be more like football?” said a man to me on Sunday afternoon. It was a good question to be asking at Leicester’s Curve theatre in an informal afternoon of conversation, tea, cake and party games hosted by the Curve and the Brick Box as part of the Guardian and Battersea Arts Centre’s A Nation’s Theatre conversations and Curve’s Inside Out festival, promoting the work of local artists and companies. The festival ended with a performance of All Out, created by the excellent Common Wealth, with local people of all ages, which was put together in just five days and performed in the multi-storey car park next to the theatre, providing a fragile and touching snapshot of the hopes and dreams of a city.... Keep reading on The Guardian