Offstage Theatre

Offstage’s Re:Home by Anna Jordan is the sequel to Home - the first play Artistic Director Cressida Brown created exactly 10 years ago. In 2006, three 22 storey tower blocks which had dominated the skyline for 50 years were pending demolition as part of East London’s regeneration. This first play Home was inspired by interviews Cressida conducted with former residents of the Beaumont towers and staged promenade around the tower blocks just prior to their destruction. (****Time Out Critic’s Choice, news on Channel 4, ITN, BBC London TV). Now, a decade later Offstage return to the Estate to discover where those they interviewed are now. These new interviews will inspire Re:Home by Anna Jordan at the Yard Theatre which will primarily examine the impact of the towers coming down on the residents of Beaumont. What effect has the last 10 years of austerity, Olympics and massive East London regeneration had on their lives? Where are they now? As well as this Re:Home will also question what right a theatre maker has to go into a community like Beaumont and make a piece of theatre about their lives in the first place.

See them talk about their project here.

“Winning the Kevin Spacey Foundation Award will allow us to take more risks and be braver in the choices we will make. Offstage’s ambition is to challenge the assumptions theatre makes about itself. With this award we can be more challenging, more outspoken, and more honest. Thank you for making us brave.”