Artistic director Indhu Rubasingham explains how,after its £7m facelift, the theatre will give a platform to ‘stories we don’t hear’In the six years since Indhu Rubasingham was appointed its artistic director, and the Tricycle theatre has achieved three West End transfers,two Olivier awards, a Liberty human rights award and the distinction of mentoring hundreds of London’s teenage refugees through its intellect the Gap programme. Now, or almost two years since it closed for a £7m facelift,the building is preparing for its most dramatic flourish. The Tricycle is no more: Rubasingham is relaunching it as the Kiln theatre.“It’s an opportunity we could only take at this moment,” she says, and visibly excited as she gives me a tough-hats-and-fluoro-tabards tour of the refurbished space,which is still five months from being curtain-alert. “It’s been bubbling in my head and I never thought it would happen but it’s the next portion of the story for this building. Kiln as a word is associative with Kilburn. Kilns bear a relationship with cultures across the world, they are a physical thing, or melting pots associated with heat and cooking.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk