Company Four

26/11/2021

We're recruiting for an Events and Administration Assistant as part of the Kickstart scheme. To be eligible for this role you need to be aged 16-24, on Universal Credit, and not working - speak to your Work Coach about this opportunity or look for it on Find a job.

Kickstart your career in the arts here 👉 http://rxtheat.re/tae

Deadline: 2nd of December 📅

06/07/2021

04/05/2021

18/06/2020

🔊 THIS IS A CALL-OUT! 🔊
We want to showcase artistic responses from disabled and chronically ill people to their experiences in lockdown. Have you struggled to get food? Has important information been made accessible to you? Does self-isolation differ much from your daily life? We want to hear from you! All kinds of art are welcome. You do not need to be a professional artist. Your story is important and your voice should be heard.

Leeds Disabled People's Organisation Disability Arts Online

Either post your response in the comments below or email [email protected] by 2 July.
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16/06/2020

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As it’s streamed by the National Theatre, the star who plays Hortense in the acclaimed adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel talks about Britain, Windrush and Black Lives Matter

02/05/2020

It’s a beautiful piece of storytelling! Absolutely masterful.

Sally Rooney’s literary blockbuster about the twisting, passionate relationship between two Irish teenagers is a tricky book to adapt. But the result is a triumph, writes Sarah Hughes.

01/05/2020

Interesting read!

Today we have released Common People: Breaking the Class Ceiling in UK Publishing.

The report by Professor Katy Shaw Northumbria University highlights the pervasive barriers facing working-class writers and looks at what the publishing industry, subsidised sector and government can do to break the class ceiling.

The report summarises the experiences and barriers faced by the working-class writers who were part of a national project that grew out of the ground-breaking anthology, Common People edited by Kit de Waal and published by Unbound a year ago today.

Working with the other literature development agencies, the project was designed to identify brilliant unpublished working-class writers, to publish them in the anthology, and to offer them a 12-month professional development programme which would support their entry into the industry.

What we sought to do with both the anthology and the project was change the conversation we have about class and access to the publishing industry – let’s be open about the challenges writers and the industry face and what we can do about it.

http://newwritingnorth.com/common-people/

03/03/2020

Deadline: 28th March 2020. Graeae’s Crips with Chips is a scratch night putting D/deaf and disabled writers centre-stage. Every other month, Graeae will be presenting four script-in-hand readings of new work at their award-winning and fully accessible Bradbury Studios in East London. All work will...

01/03/2020

Performers open up anonymously in new study throwing light on severity of ‘humiliating’ condition

25/02/2020

Crips with Chips scratch night - call out for submissions!

If you're a Deaf and/or disabled writer, we’d like to invite you to write a 10-20-minute play responding to the topic of ‘eugenics’.

Deadline: 28 March 2020

Find out the full criteria and further details on our website
https://graeae.org/our-work/crips-with-chips/

23/01/2020

It's been announced that the brilliant writer, campaigner, actor & Graeae Patron Mat Fraser is curating the new series for BBC America.

Fantastic to see so many of our friends, colleagues & alumni involved in the writing, including Jackie Hagan, Matilda Ibini, Jack Thorne (also a Graeae Patron), Genevieve Barr & Tom Wentworth. Our Artistic Director/CEO Jenny Sealey is also directing one of the pieces.

https://deadline.com/2020/01/bbc-america-disability-monologues-mat-fraser-1202833026/?fbclid=IwAR0Ebg_DWkmX85N2K6ce1m69BsZos2oWef3PNnlSZ5QfQXsIeOJIUFOCkzM

27/11/2019

Casting for a disabled actor/ musician, take a look!

10/10/2019

There’s so much focus on making this an accessible space for all and that’s fu***ng brilliant! Can’t wait to visit when it opens.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-news/new-theatre-opening-railway-arches-17058361

53two has submitted plans for a new venue on Watson Street

18/09/2019

Great read!

As working-class theatremakers, we lack the exposure to such corporate environments because the opportunities are not really available to us