This page will trace the emergence, development and work of Community and Street Theatre active in British alternative theatre from 1968-88. We are currently looking for a specialist in this area of work who would be interested in creating the web page for us. Please contact us for more details.
Companies identified to date:
Age Exchange
All Change Arts
A Team
Avanti Display
Back Door Theatre Company
Bara Caws
Beavers
Bedside Manners
Big Brum
Big Wheel Theatre Company
Bread and Circuses Theatre Company
Bruvvers
Bubble Theatre (later London Bubble)
Cambridge Experimental Theatre
The Chuffinelles
Cleveland Independent Theatre Company
Colway Theatre Trust
Combination Brighton
Combination Albany
Common Stock
Community Theatre
Controlled Attack
Covent Garden Community Theatre
Demolition Decorators
Desperate Men
Doubletake Theatre Co-operative
Dr. Foster’s Travelling Theatre
Durham Theatre Company
Eastend Abbreviated Soapbox Theatre
East End Theatre Group
Emergency Exit Arts
Emerging Dragon
EMMA Theatre Company
Equinox Travelling Theatre
Footsbarn
Forest Forge Theatre Company
Free Form
Gorllewin Morgannawg
Grand Theatre of Lemmings
Guizer Theatre Company
Gusto Theatre Company
Hijinx Theatre
Horse and Bamboo
Hot Foot Community Theatre
Inner City Theatre Company
Inside Overall Company
Interplay Community Theatre
Key Perspectives
Kinetik Theatre Company
Kneehigh Theatre
Little Acorn Theatre Company
London Bubble (Bubble Theatre)
M6
Manchester Actors Company
Masque Community Theatre
Matchbox Theatre
Medieval Players
Medium Fair
Micro (later Manchester Actors Co)
Mummeranddada
Natural Theatre Company
NE1 Theatre
New Perspectives Theatre Company
Norfolk Actors
Northumberland Theatre Company
Omoro Community
Open Cast Theatre
Orchard Theatre Company
Out of Order Productions
Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company
Path Productions
Paupers Carnival Theatre
Pentabus Theatre Company
Perspectives Theatre Company
Pilot Theatre
Pit Prop Theatre
Platform 6 Theatre Company
Platypus Theatre Company
Pocket Theatre
Proteus Theatre Company
Punching Judies
Q20 Bradford’s Theatre Company
The Raree Show
Second City
Second Wave Young Women’s Arts Project
Shiva Theatre
Sistershow
Skin and Bones Theatre Collective
Solent People’s Theatre
Spectacle Theatre Company
Stirabout Theatre Company and Gallery
Street Level
Sturdy Beggars
TAG Theatre Company
Theatr Bara Caws
Theatr Powys
Theatre Camel
Theatre in the Community
Theatre Mobile
Theatre Venture
Theatre of West Glamorgan
Theatre Workshop Company
Travelling Light Theatre Company
T.A.T (Trinity Arts Troupe)
Webb-Foot Productions
Whalley Range All Stars
Yorkshire Theatre Company
Women’s Street Theatre Group
Word and Action