17/11/2025
OK – crunch time! A missive from editor Dorothy Max Prior
Total Theatre Magazine is currently unfunded. For a number of years there has been nothing other than the occasional small project fund for a specific activity.
Over the past few years, I have not only worked unpaid much of the time, but have sometimes contributed my own money to keep the main website and print archive website afloat. This can't continue, so decisions will have to be made. The immediate decision is that once current articles in progress are posted, I will need to put TT on hold for a few months whilst funding is sought/secured.
There are two main issues: whether TT can continue to operate as a contemporary venture, and if so, how that can happen; and how to safeguard the work done in creating the digitised print archive. Thoughts and suggestions welcome!
Funding: I'm currently putting together a National Lottery Heritage Fund bid to save the print archive (25 years of TT in print digitised, with the kind support of National Lottery, but now endangered). Other funding possibilities? We have benefited from ACE funding in the past but don't really fit their current criteria.
In the meantime, there's a Support Total Theatre button on the home page of the main website for financial contributions. Anything you could give would help greatly with the ongoing costs.
For over 30 years, Total Theatre Magazine has celebrated and supported physical and visual theatre and performance, and given space and voice to artists working in less well documented performance genres such as physical/visual theatre, outdoor arts, circus, puppetry, site-responsive performance, an...
