Miss Ida
Photo credit: Pete Lopeman (2024) An entertaining one woman show celebrating the highs and lows of your autumn years, exploring positive changes we can all make to our lifestyle, wellbeing and health. Miss Ida is a retired nurse who has spent a lifetime passionately advocating for overall health and well-being. As she enters her autumn […]
On Ya Bike
On Ya Bike! A play we created in the summer of 2024 about cycling, active travel and how small changes can have a wheelie big impact. Commissioned by Travel West Midlands, as part of their wider programme Cycle for Everyone, the programme looks at the barriers people have towards cycling and encourages people to think […]
The New Land Girls
In autumn 2024 we devised an exciting new piece of theatre which explored the relationship between women and land, co-created with a community cast of women from Sandwell. Developed from research with women in Sandwell, The New Land Girls was an engaging new production which explored the role the land and access to it play […]
Our Park Our Lives
Our Park, Our Lives September – November 2023 Cannon Hill Park, previously Cannon Meadows Park, was opened to the public on 1 September 1873. It was gifted to the City by Louisa Anne Ryland, the daughter of Samuel Ryland, a Birmingham manufacturer, for the people of Birmingham, to protect and preserve for all time. Our […]
Touch Wood
Sheila is 52, overworked with no time for herself. She gets an appointment to attend the mobile breast screening unit…Will she go? Brenda, Noreen, Pauline, her hairdresser, and the girl in the Wonderbra advert help her make up her mind! As part of Women & Theatre’s Revive programme, celebrating the company’s 40th anniversary, W&T remounted […]
Revival
Bringing back to life theatre about things that have mattered, and matter still. Celebrating our 40th anniversary, Women & Theatre presented Revival, a series of rehearsed readings of key productions from our archive. Developed from research and buzzing with the energy of real-life experiences, these readings will entertain and provide snapshots of issues, experiences, and […]
Not the Last
Not The Last by Susie Sillett Celebrating 150 years of Cannon Hill Park by unearthing the story of Birmingham’s lesser known benefactor. Midlands Arts Centre In 1873 Louisa Anne Ryland donated the land which would become Cannon Hill Park to the people of Birmingham. Not the Last features two members of a fictional Birmingham-based historical society […]
Moving On Films
Things I Wish I’d Known Moving On is a creative project co-delivered with care experienced young people. The project aims to make changes, break stereotypes and prepare young people to leave care. Together with our core group of care experienced young people, we explore important issues to do with the care system and the care […]
Taking Steps
“No one ever told me that we’re all just trying to figure it out” The Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome A professional theatre production with discussions co-facilitated by care experienced young people. It takes a village to raise a child…but how are they supported into adulthood and beyond? Step into the world of care leavers with […]
A Thousand Threads
Birmingham 2022 Festival presents a Women & Theatre production A Thousand Threads “A thousand stories, all woven together, spinning our stories, to show the world, this game is ours.” Celebrating Women’s Cricket being part of the Commonwealth Games for the first time, Women & Theatre produced an engaging community theatre production and podcast series, entitled […]