Explore every episode of the podcast Local Theatres

Local Theatres is a podcast from Researching Local Theatres: Participation, Inclusion, Imagination, an AHRC-funded research project exploring what local theatres do across England. Hosted by research associate Sidonie Carey-Green and project co-lead Selina Busby.  

In episode four we're joined by Philip J Morris, founder and artistic director of Trybe House Theatre, and James Sloam, professor of politics at Royal Holloway. Together they explore what it really means to centre young Londoners' voices, who is actually being heard, what the difference is between being listened to and having power, and whether local theatre with young people is, or should be, a political space. 

Local Theatres is a podcast from Researching Local Theatres: Participation, Inclusion, Imagination, an AHRC-funded research project exploring what local theatres do across England. Hosted by research associate Sidonie Carey-Green and project co-lead Selina Busby. This project is led by professor Helen Nicholson of Royal Holloway, University of London.

In this episode we're joined by Amy Golding, multidisciplinary artist, activist and consultant, and Katie Town, executive director of Theatre Royal Wakefield. They discuss what it really means to be a theatre of sanctuary, beyond the label, and explore the tension between institutional life and the slow, trust-based work that true welcome requires. A conversation about sanctuary, politics, and what the whole theatre sector could learn. 

Local Theatres is a podcast from Researching Local Theatres: Participation, Inclusion, Imagination, an AHRC-funded research project exploring what local theatres do across England. Hosted by research associate Sidonie Carey-Green and project co-lead Selina Busby, this project is led by professor Helen Nicholson of Royal Holloway, University of London.

In episode two we're joined by Kiz Crosby and Ned Glasier to talk about the value of youth theatre and the quality of the work. We explore where youth theatre sits within theatre ecologies, what quality really means when young people are at the centre, who decides whether youth theatre matters and what it would take for the wider industry to treat it like it does. 

Local Theatres is a podcast from Researching Local Theatres: Participation, Inclusion, Imagination, an AHRC-funded research project exploring what local theatres do across England. Hosted by research associate Sidonie Carey-Green and project co-lead Selina Busby, this project is led by professor Helen Nicholson of Royal Holloway, University of London.

In this first episode we talk to three department managers working across very different types of theatre. Phil McCormack, Lucy Hunt and Janine Solmon-Gardener join us to discuss how theatres include local people in their work and what mainstream theatre could learn from departments like theirs.