Lyn Garnder emphasises that people, not buildings, are the best asset for any community – and that theatre, and the arts more generally, can shape the narrative that people tell about themselves.
“Money’s nice, but connections and conversations are better,” says Julia Negus, co-founder of Shopfront theatre, which is in an old fish and chip shop in City Arcade, Coventry. “We all know that theatre can happen everywhere, but Shopfront made us realise that often it doesn’t happen where people are and need it.”
On 17 October, Shopfront, which is run by Theatre Absolute, hosted one of the conversations in the ongoing symposium A Nation’s Theatre . It was a debate about civic theatre – appropriately in the city that built the first civic theatre, the Belgrade, after the second world war; a symbol of optimism in a devastated city, born of the belief that the arts really can change people’s lives for the better... Keep reading on The Guardian
“Money’s nice, but connections and conversations are better,” says Julia Negus, co-founder of Shopfront theatre, which is in an old fish and chip shop in City Arcade, Coventry. “We all know that theatre can happen everywhere, but Shopfront made us realise that often it doesn’t happen where people are and need it.”
On 17 October, Shopfront, which is run by Theatre Absolute, hosted one of the conversations in the ongoing symposium A Nation’s Theatre . It was a debate about civic theatre – appropriately in the city that built the first civic theatre, the Belgrade, after the second world war; a symbol of optimism in a devastated city, born of the belief that the arts really can change people’s lives for the better... Keep reading on The Guardian