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From the people who make theatre at and with London Bubble.
Black History Month was important this year. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and with the rise of the...
02 Nov 2020
Black Theatre Matters
With so much talk about children going back to school having to ‘catch up’ it was with relief that I...
20 Aug 2020
The Recovery Curriculum – What have arts-in-education got to do with it?
After over thirty years of service, our creative director Jonathan Petherbridge steps down today. As we transition into a (possibly...
31 Jul 2020
Farewell Peth!
London Bubble’s Young Theatre Makers Programme opens its doors to 12 new budding young people that have all taken an...
08 Oct 2019
Introducing Cohort 16
“Where shall we go? What country will have us?” In small clusters people are asked to choose a new home...
31 May 2019
The Deal: An Interactive Research Performance
It is a hot June day. There is an audience of about 40 people looking on. Seven women sit in...
19 Oct 2018
Origins and Ripples
London Bubble’s inter-generational project Charting the Mayflower is bringing together historians, artists, volunteers and participants of all ages to explore...
01 Aug 2018
Charting the Mayflower, the first six months
A paper given to the Performing Care Symposium, London. 15th December 2016 Thank you for coming along, and thank you...
11 Jan 2017
Careful Connections
Throughout Spring 2016 London Bubble has been working with Year 6 of Peter Hills School in Rotherhithe to discover the...
09 May 2016
Peter Hills: project blog
Early last month I sat KS2 English SAT test*. The whole experience was very enlightening. While writing down about the experience...
05 May 2016
Do you know a Noun phrase?
DAY 3: Tuesday 21st April Money… So although we’ve had a day without workshops, it has allowed us to think...
01 May 2015
Prepping in Hiroshima: Day 3
DAY 2: Sunday 19th April People turn up. And some new people too. I ask those that were present yesterday...
28 Apr 2015
Prepping in Hiroshima: Day 2
DAY 1: Saturday 18th April If this project has any chance of happening we have to overcome 2 big blocks...
28 Apr 2015
Prepping in Hiroshima: Day 1
The audience is absolutely central to any work we do in theatre which is how I come to find myself...
10 Feb 2015
A view from the rehearsal room
“…now stir in 100 grams of specialist artists”. Last week saw us running The Big Consultation. 110 lucky people were...
10 Feb 2015
The making of #HDV: Part 3
Sunday afternoon. I am making a singing banana. I am very pleased, not only has it got a mouth that sings...
10 Feb 2015
The making of #HDV: Part 2
Hopelessly De-Voted has two aims. To reflect on what we feel about how our political system works and to test the...
10 Feb 2015
The making of #HDV: Part 1
In 2011 London Bubble started making new theatre pieces with groups of volunteer performers of all ages and backgrounds. People...
03 Nov 2014
An introduction to Vernacular Theatre
The Observer recently reported the results of a European Social Survey that exposed the intergenerational split in our society –...
29 Oct 2012
Generations Apart
While attending the Giving Voice conference at the V&A I heard a lot of talk about engaging the community in...
29 Oct 2012
Thoughts on Bubble community practice
On Monday night I went to ‘Shouldn’t all theatre be community theatre’ an event organised through the Young Vic’s Directors...
25 Oct 2012
This thing called Community Theatre
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