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Common Wealth

COMMON WEALTH

  
Nationality:    English
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Common Wealth are an award-winning, Bradford-based company who make site-specific theatre events that are political and contemporary  based in the present day  the here and now. Our ideas are rooted in socialist politics, working class backgrounds, a keen interest in contemporary music/theatre/art/design, the people that we meet and an idealistic ambition to shift things. We see our plays as campaigns, a way of bringing people together and making change feel possible.

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below is a list of Common Wealth's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Indecent Incident, An         Juniper Tree         Nationalisation!         No Guts, No Heart, No Glory         Our Glass House         Ups & Downs of The Town of Brown, The

Indecent Incident, An

Synopsis:
A site-specific promenade play staged in a disused zip factory in London's East End. The piece explored a man's fall from his own ideals with a live Russian score from The Gadjo Club, dancing, wedding food and free vodka. With choreography from Fernanda and live music from The Gadjo Club.

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Adapted by Aisha Zia from A Nasty Story by Dostoyevsky

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adaptation

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Juniper Tree

Synopsis:
Set in a disused medical hospital the audience is invited in to smash an apple, become part of the town and wander freely to explore a deconstructed version of the Brothers Grimm story. The non-linear narrative takes you on a journey through hunger, fear, love, death and ultimately celebration. With installations from The Cardboard Club, Hot Soup, Scab, David Illares, Rhys Eggleton, Alex Welch, music from three minstrels John-jo (of Meteor Street) Craigus (of Retinal Circus) and Sara (of Chrome Hoof), a fox playing in the forest and cider served thoughout.

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roving adaptation of this gory Grimm Tale

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Nationalisation!

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Nationalisation! is a bonkers beginning of a project we have begun in the Gurnos Estate, Merthyr, South Wales. It is a community-led performance where we ask the people of Gurnos to suspend their disbelief and imagine that last night we together, collectively reclaimed control of our public services and they are now ran by the community. The performance is a party where we celebrate taking back out public services with the community and imagine a different world with a different set of rules. It is idealistic and left-wing and playful and daft.

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No Guts, No Heart, No Glory

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory
No Guts, No Heart, No Glory explores being young, fearless and doing the unexpected. Working closely with five 16-22-year-old Muslim women and former National Champion boxer Ambreen Sadiq. This play represents a young Muslim female experience of life in the UK. It speaks to young people and will make them feel braver and encourage them to live how they want to live, so that they are free and confident to make their own choices tomorrow.

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1st Produced:
Sandys Boxing Gym, 76 Craigmillar Castle Avenue, Edinburgh, EH16 4DW    18 Aug 2014

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Common Wealth

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Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783191918

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Site-specific, Verbatim, 1 hour

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Our Glass House

Synopsis:
A site-specific performance about domestic abuse staged in a residential house. Our Glass House involves moments of fantasy, choreography and song, and is a promenade piece, encouraging audience to make their own journeys. The performance text is based on interviews we have carried out with men and women who have experienced domestic violence. There are no perpetrators in the show; we explore why people stay and how they leave. For the making of this show we have collaborated with artists to transform a disused house into a world for you to explore.

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created by Rhiannon White and Evie Manning

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Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    13 Aug 2013

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devised, site-specific 1 hour

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Ups & Downs of The Town of Brown, The

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A political, site-specific musical based on Brechts The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany. A forty strong cast and crew transformed Bristols Old Courtrooms and filled them with inappropriate song, revelry and a full-scale cardboard theatre and cardboard courtroom. The piece challenges and explores copyright, law and order, money and consumption and examines the state of Britain today. With live music from five-piece band Circus of Invention and two sound artists, Phullopium Dude and Katapulto.

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Genre:
site specific musical

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