News & Blog
Keep up to date with all our activities by reading our regular blogs written by actor and theatre practitioner Janine Haynes.
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Stark figures show just how detrimental the pandemic has been on our sector
3 November 2021
The future of the theatre industry looks positive. Theatres are slowly coming back to life, we are able to work again and audiences are returning with confidence.
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Grid Arts and Grid Spinners – capturing the beauty of Milton Keynes
25 October 2021
Something that you might not know about The Play’s The Thing Theatre Company, is that we are involved in Grid Arts...
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Our inspiring ‘Hidden Stories’ season comes to MK Gallery this month
10 October 2021
We are delighted to announce that as part of our ‘Hidden Stories’ season and to celebrate Black History Month, MK Gallery is showing the inspirational documentary, “Sing, Freetown”, on Friday 22nd October at 7pm in its Sky Room Cinema.
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Making the Invisible Visible at our exhibition
28 September 2021
On Friday 10th September we launched our exhibition to showcase the results of our six-month community project, ‘Invisible Visible’...
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Hidden Stories
7 September 2021
OUR BRAND NEW PROJECT! Four new pieces from local writers...
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Making our project VISIBLE!
28 August 2021
Our project ‘Invisible – Visible’ explores the concept of invisibility within society...
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Keep talking about Mental Health
15 August 2021
The last eighteen months has had a devastating and detrimental impact on our workforce. Due to the government’s lack of support to both freelancers and theatres, we have witnessed people fighting singlehandedly for survival, some losing their livelihoods, others being forced out of the industry all together and theatres closing for good.
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Making theatre accessible for all
2 August 2021
You may have seen recently that the musical ‘Six’ has relocated to its ‘forever home’ at the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End...
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Scrapping self-isolation rules can’t come soon enough
15 July 2021
It has been absolutely fantastic to see so many of the big West End shows returning to the stage and regional theatres beginning to open over the last few weeks...
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Putting disability in the spotlight
3 July 2021
Inclusion and diversity are words featured in many conversations within theatre...