Drama puts performance at the frontiers of research into major global challenges such as social inequality, poverty reduction, the criminal justice system, health and wellbeing, disability, the climate crisis and environmental degradation, and cultural heritage sustainability as part of national disaster and risk reduction strategies.

Initiatives

• People’s Palace Projects

Projects

• Heartbeat – Creating Recovery by Paul Heritage (People’s Palace Projects)
• Building the Barricades by Paul Heritage (People’s Palace Projects)
• Women/ Theatre/ Justice co-led by Caoimhe McAvinchey – with Clean Break
• The Verbatim Formula co-led by Maggie Inchley
• With One Voice by People’s Palace Projects
• London as a Village by People’s Palace Projects

Publications

• Theatre of The Oppressed In Practice Today by Ali Campbell
• Applied Theatre: Women and the Criminal Justice System by Caoimhe McAvinchey
• Phakama: Making Participatory Theatre by Caoimhe McAvinchey (and Fabio Santos and Lucy Richardson)

Reports

• Rooms with a View: Disrupting and Developing Narratives of Community through Intergenerational Arts Practice, Magic Me, 2016 by Caoimhe McAvinchey