CAMDEN PEOPLE'S THEATRE
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Mission Statement
Camden People’s Theatre is one of the UK’s most influential small theatres, with a proud record of supporting early-career performance makers – to make amazing work, and to establish sustainable careers. It brings together artists and everyone else to connect, imagine, be heard and be entertained. It makes space for the theatre of tomorrow, it celebrates community and it strives to create a more equitable and caring world through extraordinary performance made by and for a wide range of people. Over 30 years, CPT has fulfilled a national leadership role in the field of innovative contemporary performance. We deliver a wide-ranging programme that champions the next generation of theatre-makers, working with and launching the careers of ground-breaking artists including: Fevered Sleep, Chris Thorpe, Emily Lim (who now runs the National Theatre’s Public Acts programme), Scottee, Common Wealth and Nouveau Riche (Queens of Sheba; For Black Boys…) – among many, many others. We have an excellent reputation for supporting early-career artists in this field, and for attracting a consistently young and diverse audience.
About This Cause
“There are few spaces in the capital left to see experimental performance; CPT is one of those rare places and it is vital it is preserved” – Amy Lamé, London’s Night Czar Our story began 30 years ago when a group of visionary artists took over the empty space that used to be the Lord Palmerston Pub, an important site of community organising for decades, and turned it into Camden People’s Theatre. That means we’ve been here since the release of Oasis’s first album, since Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa, since China first got connected to the internet. We’re as old as Amazon, The Lion King and the smartphone - but we’re not looking back, we’re looking forward, to an incredible year of activity in the space where artistic innovation meets local involvement meets engagement with the ‘now’. Over the last 30 years, we have supported some of the nation’s most exciting emerging artists, delivered an annual programme of ground-breaking experimental work, and delivered extraordinary community projects made with and by our local residents. Last year we supported 226 artists / companies to deliver 302 performances, we gave out 1356 hours of in-kind rehearsal space, and 60 of our artists received commissions. 72% of those artists were in the first 4 years of their career, and showed work to over 17,000 audience members. Though we’re one of the smallest theatres, we are one of the biggest emerging artist support hubs in the city. We’re not just a building, we are a home for all of the artists and community members that engage with us. It's these individuals who make us what we are. We are proud of the way that we work with artists, but we know that it's tougher than ever to sustain a career as an artist right now. So we’re determined to step up. We want to raise significant funds to enable us to support the artists and community members that make up the heart of our theatre. Funds raised will ensure we can expand and transform our programmes, so we're ready to deliver more groundbreaking work for the next 30 years.