Camden People’s Theatre hosts Whose London Is It Anyway?, a festival of new theatre work by early career theatre makers that asks questions about London, its housing crisis and what is at risk in the face of unfettered regeneration.
Running from 9 to 31 January, the highlights include:
- new in-house production, absurdist documentary This Is Private Property, directed by the venue's artistic director, Brian Logan and created with the company
- a funeral procession for the loss of social housing The Death of Social Housing
- They Want to Skate staged in the Southbank Centre Undercroft
- Emer Mary Morris with the story of the Focus E15 Open House Occupation in The Land of the Three Towers
- a day of new theatrical experiments around the streets of Euston with a staging of Coney's interactive adventure Adventure 1
- Annie Siddons’s (co created with Richard DeDomenici) tale of life not fitting in, How (Not) to Live in Suburbia
- Jamie Harper’s live action role play, Lowland Clearances
- Rachael Clerke’s Cuncrete (formerly known as Beton Brute)
The festival includes scratch nights, a series of talks, a film night and the live recording of playwrights Brad Birch and Luke Barnes's popular podcast The Pursuit of Happiness.