Bubble Staff Blogs

Black History Month was important this year. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and with the rise of the...

With so much talk about children going back to school having to ‘catch up’ it was with relief that I...

After over thirty years of service, our creative director Jonathan Petherbridge steps down today. As we transition into a (possibly...

London Bubble’s Young Theatre Makers Programme opens its doors to 12 new budding young people that have all taken an...

“Where shall we go? What country will have us?” In small clusters people are asked to choose a new home...

It is a hot June day. There is an audience of about 40 people looking on. Seven women sit in...

London Bubble’s inter-generational project Charting the Mayflower is bringing together historians, artists, volunteers and participants of all ages to explore...

A paper given to the Performing Care Symposium, London. 15th December 2016 Thank you for coming along, and thank you...

Throughout Spring 2016 London Bubble has been working with Year 6 of Peter Hills School in Rotherhithe to discover the...

Early last month I sat KS2 English SAT test*. The whole experience was very enlightening. While writing down about the experience...

DAY 3: Tuesday 21st April Money… So although we’ve had a day without workshops, it has allowed us to think...

DAY 2: Sunday 19th April People turn up. And some new people too. I ask those that were present yesterday...

DAY 1: Saturday 18th April If this project has any chance of happening we have to overcome 2 big blocks...

The audience is absolutely central to any work we do in theatre which is how I come to find myself...

“…now stir in 100 grams of specialist artists”. Last week saw us running The Big Consultation. 110 lucky people were...

Sunday afternoon. I am making a singing banana. I am very pleased, not only has it got a mouth that sings...

Hopelessly De-Voted has two aims. To reflect on what we feel about how our political system works and to test the...

In 2011 London Bubble started making new theatre pieces with groups of volunteer performers of all ages and backgrounds. People...

The Observer recently reported the results of a European Social Survey that exposed the intergenerational split in our society –...

While attending the Giving Voice conference at the V&A I heard a lot of talk about engaging the  community in...

On Monday night I went to ‘Shouldn’t all theatre be community theatre’ an event organised through the Young Vic’s Directors...