Beside Ourselves Collective is Eleanor Young and Kate Mounce. They performed an extract of Just Don’t Do It as a part of CPT’s Hotbed Fest in May. They are brimming with excitement to bring the full show back after a two-week run at Edinburgh Free Fringe this year. Below Kate talks about why sex and the Church has been an … Read more
Poet, performer and current Poet-in-Residence at Waterloo Station, Dan Simpson, joined us on the 25th of August for the Drummond Street Festival. Wanting to involve his audience as much as he could, he crowdsourced a poem together in 20 minutes and performed live on stage! Drummond Street Festival … Read more
Cairo Nevitt, a performer in BULLISH by Milk Presents, gives an insight into the creative process so far and how it relates to their own personal journey. BULLISH headlines Come As You Are: our latest festival of trans, nonbinary and gender queer theatre. As production week approaches I feel nervous and excited that Bullish will be opening in London and at the CPT! My … Read more
Becky from Bonnie and The Bonnettes gives an insight into their creative process and what it means to be a ‘drag queen’ ahead of Drag Me To Love, which arrives at CPT on Tue 19 Sept as part of Come As You Are: three weeks of trans, nonbinary and gender queer theatre. We are Hattie Eason, Becky Glendenning-Laycock, Cameron Sharp, … Read more
Milk Presents’ Production Manager Al Orange shares some thoughts about the development of Bullish, which comes to CPT in October and headlines our new festival Come As You Are. Finding my Minatour Working with Milk Presents brings forwards particular challenges for a Production Manager. The process sits somewhere on a constantly moving scale between, devised and scripted work, as delightfully … Read more
Autumn/Winter 2017 at CPT Brand new in-house production Fog Everywhere headlines Shoot the Breeze, a line-up of environmental themed work Major new festival exploring gender identities, Come As You Are London premiere of Barrel Organ’s Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here CPT is thrilled to announce a five-month season of cutting-edge new theatre from the UK’s most exciting emerging artists. … Read more
Great ideas for theatre shows can start to feel less great when they come into contact with reality – and at CPT, we were aware that our new project, Fog Everywhere, could easily fall into that category. The plan was to make a theatre show that invited young Londoners to articulate their feelings about growing up in a city that’s poisoning … Read more
Are you Edinburgh-bound? The festival looms so large over CPT’s world of theatre, we’re prone to forgetting that not everyone’s summer revolves around flirting with bankruptcy in the rain-soaked Scottish capital. For the artists we work with, the Fringe often takes on an almost magical significance: it’s an initiation rite for first-time artists and companies, it’s where careers – and new … Read more
Twitter, Tickets and Tea: The Life of a CPT Intern Have you ever been locked out of your email account for sending too many emails at once? I have. Five times. Now answer me this: Have you ever trapped yourself in window display because you made it look absolutely perfect and artistically beautiful but then realised you’d blocked the tiny … Read more
So we’re on the road again – though it’s just a little short one his time – heading to London and Camden People’s Theatre on 27-28 May, after performing on our home turf Leeds on the 26th. I’m sure you all have heard by now, but we’ll be heading to Edinburgh in August to do a FULL RUN AT THE … Read more