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Suffolk’s Theatre Royal has cast 22 year old South Londoner, Becky Sanneh, in the leading role of Cinderella. Becky, who has been acting since childhood never believed she would play a princess in a leading role. “As long as I could remember I just thought I’ll never be the princess. I’ll probably be the sidekick […]
Connor Curren has landed the lead role of the National Theatre tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. This is the first time the production has featured an actor with autism in the lead role. He plays Christopher Boone, a 15 year old mathematics ‘genius’ who struggles with social cues and […]
Nineteen young people learned about violence against women through a special performance of ‘Maryland’, written by award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Lucy Kirkwood. Newham Council’s Youth Empowerment Service – part of its Brighter Futures scheme – invited the group of youngsters to see the play which took place at Theatre Royal Stratford East on the International […]
Misogyny, racism, abuse and queerness are all addressed in a new podcast A new podcast series from Futures Theatre brings together interviews with marginalised groups and dramatised stories from established and emerging UK writers, telling stories of 30 women and non-binary people from diverse UK communities. Fully Amplified is a seven-part original drama-documentary series exploring […]
We are delighted to announce that the Visionary Arts Foundation are among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. This award will help us produce this year’s Visionary Honours and run our Visionary Impact Programme which supports disadvantaged young adults using artistic platforms […]
Due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic this year’s event was postponed and replaced by a virtual award ceremony. It still however provided an inspirational and entertaining evening for all those watching from home during lockdown. TV presenter Scarlette Douglas was the host, and delivered the opening monologue on behalf of founder, Adrian Grant: “The Visionary […]
The second annual Visionary Honours celebrating inspirational culture, media and entertainment takes place on Wednesday 6th May during an online broadcast hosted here and on Facebook Premiere 8pm @VisionaryArtsUK. Below are this year’s nominations: BOOK Crossfire by Malorie Blackman (Penguin) One of the most successful YA authors of all time, Malorie Blackman is the author […]
It’s been eight years since the Vault Festival, London’s scrappiest, most sprawling arts festival, began. And this year there are eight whole weeks of it. A ridiculous number of shows are on offer between 28 January and 22 March this year, and you can see everything from new work by new voices to Edinburgh success […]
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Olivier award-nominated writer and performer Athena Stevens has written Scrounger, a no-holds-barred look at Britain’s treatment of people with disabilities. Scrounger is the first show in the Finborough Theatre’s 40th anniversary year, 2020. In October 2015 I was due to take a British Airways flight out of London City Airport, when I was removed from […]
