Come and celebrate the launch of the second year of Cardboard Citizens’ youth theatre programme ACT NOW!

Up on the Roof - an original Forum Theatre performance devised over the summer by the ACT NOW group with script by Tony McBride and direction by Terry O’Leary.

Wednesday, 8th September 7pm
Thursday, 9th September 4pm

Performances will take place at Brady Arts Centre, 192-196 Hanbury Street,
London, E1 5HU

How are you with heights?
That feeling of climbing, step by step, taking you higher, always higher – taking it to the edge?
Some people can’t do it, need to stay on the ground.
Vertigo they call it. They think it’s the fear of heights, the fear of falling.
It’s not. Vertigo’s not the fear of falling, it’s the fear of the desire to fall.
That feeling when you look over the edge and you want to go, you feel the pull to go, your body wants to go – or is it your mind?


ACT NOW is a theatre collective for under 25s run by Cardboard Citizens, the UK's only professional theatre company working with people who are or who have been homeless.

About Forum Theatre: Cardboard Citizens has been touring Forum Theatre shows, performed by actors with experience of homelessness, in hostels and day centres for the past 20 years. Forum Theatre allows audience members to join the actors on stage and experiment solutions to the issues encountered by the characters. The technique was created by Brazilian practitioner Augusto Boal who died last year and who had worked with Cardboard Citizens since the company's creation.


TICKETS ARE FREE - RSVP COMPULSORY
To book please email Stuart Grey at stuart@cardboardcitizens.org.uk or call +44 (0)20 7247 7747.

If you are interested in finding out more about the programme, there will be information about our weekly workshops at the performances!