In these socially and politically turbulent times theatre cannot be a passive bystander to the inequality and violences of society.
It is time for British theatre to become politicised.
It is time for British theatre to change.
We aim to bring this model to the UK, to encourage artists, programmers and audiences to see social, political and educational theatre not as a commodity, but as a right.
If you would like to get in touch with us about supporting this movement financially or practically please email us on contact@beznatheatre.org.
We would like to create a network for political theatre artists, to create a safe and empowering space for the exchange of ideas and practices and to encourage more artists to question the status quo through their work. We would like to forge meaningful connections with other artists whereby we cease to see each other as competitors, but as collaborators. We want to encourage fellow artists to focus on the common activist aim of creating a safer, fairer intersectional society as a collective, not as individuals.
We want to create a network in which artists feel free to offer each other honest and fair constructive criticism and in which artists are comfortable to discuss, debate, challenge or accept constructive criticism from their peers. We want to move away from individualistic, self-indulgent, self-centred, self-absorbed work and into collectively conscious, collectively sensitive and altruistic work with the greater long-term aim of combating violence in all its oppressive forms. We aim for our network to be horizontal and equal despite age, gender, nationality, ethnicity, ability, belief or level of experience. We believe in equality of opinion, in fair exchange of ideas and in the importance of accepting error in order to achieve the higher aim of changing the world.
If you want to help us build a network for change, please email us on contact@beznatheatre.org.
* This model is inspired by and indebted to the educational and political spaces we have worked with in Romania, Centrul de Teatru Educațional Replika and MACAZ Bar Teatru Coop.