What's Happening at London Bubble?
Welcome to our blog space! We have been making theatre with and for our communities since 1972 and our mission will forever be to foster a more connected and equal society. So if you never want to miss a Bubble moment, read on…
Senior Producer Natalie Clarke reflects on Bubble's longstanding work with young people in the Youth Justice Service.
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Our current Writer in Residence Gina Hamer interviews CAMPitalism's BOY Theatre.
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Black History Month was important this year. In the wake of George Floyd's murder and with the rise of the Black Lives
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Originally published on A New Direction's website. Speech Bubbles has gone back to school! Hooray! We have started a little later than
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With so much talk about children going back to school having to ‘catch up’ it was with relief that I came across
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London Bubble would like to express our thanks to Paul Hamlyn Foundation for emergency support of the Speech Bubbles programme at
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After over thirty years of service, our creative director Jonathan Petherbridge steps down today. As we transition into a (possibly different/in some
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Last Thursday evening we started by welcoming new members of the group and sharing the basic Mayflower story through a rough acted
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As we are now finishing week six (!!!), which is half way through this year’s Young Theatre Makers Programme, we wanted to
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London Bubble’s Young Theatre Makers Programme opens its doors to 12 new budding young people that have all taken an interest in
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So we have come to our end of the first year (and more) of Charting the Mayflower workshops where we have explored
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The day before this week’s workshop I had spent half an hour online, talking to Mohegan theatre maker Madeline Sayet. I saw
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Nine Bubble participants are currently appearing in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Globe Theatre on London’s South Bank. Here’s their
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On Thursday the 6th of June, I took part in the intergenerational Charting the Mayflower workshop. We discussed the effect of the
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Our exploration into the passengers on the Mayflower saw us setting out for our own new worlds last week. We were tasked
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Wow, what an opportunity! Ten of us - Bubble participants of different ages and experience - are about to step onto one
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“Where shall we go? What country will have us?” In small clusters people are asked to choose a new home and place
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The Adult Drama group's performance was called 'Blah Blah Blah...Brexit'. When we started at the beginning of the year, because we are
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Working with Tea Break was such a rewarding, warm and wonderful experience. As someone who works in theatre primarily with the 11-25
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Last Thursday evening, everyone on board the Mayflower project explored ‘Encounters and Influencers’, the moments we meet people and the effects they
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At this week’s Mayflower session, we explored lingering, unanswered questions and ideas the group has about how and why the voyage took
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Cramped, weightless, swaying. I carried these words with me as I left the Mayflower session last Thursday and journeyed home. Well not
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Over the past nine months since its inception, London Bubble’s intergenerational project Charting The Mayflower has been looking at the ‘why’ behind
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