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Cardboard Citizens is the UK's only homeless people's professional theatre company, and the leading practitioner of Forum Theatre and the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology in the UK. [1]
Cardboard Citizens was founded in 1991 by Adrian Jackson, MBE, [2] in the Cardboard City that had sprung up in what was then called the Bullring in Waterloo.
Cardboard Citizens became independent in 1995 and now regularly tours Forum Theatre productions written by playwrights including Kae Tempest (Glasshouse), Ali Taylor (Cathy) and Sarah Woods (Meta) in the UK to theatres, prisons, hostels and community venues. [3] It has also mounted theatre productions in both site-specific locations and as collaborations with other larger organisations, including the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and English National Opera. These have included Mincemeat, A Few Man Fridays, Pericles and Timon of Athens (both RSC). In 2016, the company staged a Community Ensemble theatrical staging of Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home to mark the film's 50th anniversary and the Theatre Company's 25th anniversary. The production starred Elle Payne as Cathy and Denholm Spurr as Reg.
In December 2017, Cardboard Citizens' founder, CEO and Artistic Director Adrian Jackson was awarded an MBE for Services to the Arts in the 2018 New Year Honours list. [4]
Timothy Lancaster West, CBE is an English actor and presenter. He has appeared frequently on stage and television, including stints in both Coronation Street and EastEnders, and Not Going Out, as the original Geoffrey Adams. He is married to the actress Prunella Scales; from 2014 to 2019, they travelled together on UK and overseas canals in the Channel 4 series Great Canal Journeys.
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