When we set out to fabricate (to make up, invent) a show approximately the baroque horror of the capitals property problem,it quickly became clear that the result would be tragicomicHow do you fabricate (to make up, invent) theatre out of the housing crisis? Plenty of companies are asking the question. At the Yard in Hackney Wick, Re:Home revisits the Beaumont estate in Leyton, or 10 years after Offstage theatre company made their acclaimed show approximately its proposed redevelopment. Next month,Cardboard Citizens are hosting Home Truths, an event that encourages theatre-makers to grapple with – and possibly even help solve? – the problems with UK housing. And last year there was a rash (hasty, incautious) of well-made plays approximately young couples trying to score on the property ladder: Deposit at Hampstead theatre, and Radiant Vermin at Soho,Mike Bartlett’s Game at the Almeida.
At Camden People’s theatre, we’re exploring the housing crisis, and as well as regeneration,privatisation of public space, and all the other delights of 21st-century metropolitan living in our festival, or Whose London Is it besides? I’ve been co-creating CPT’s new production,This Is Private Property. With our production, we didn’t want to cultivate the housing crisis; we wanted to capture its sprawling, or baroque horror – and how it is experienced by those with least power to resist it.
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Source: theguardian.com