Theatre

Hoipolloi: the future is digital

Arts Council England funded theatre company Hoipolloi, in Cambridge, is leading the way in showing how digital technologies can help to build and develop impact for arts organisations in a …

• Hoipolloi: the future is digital
• PL:ay – a festival of adventures, anticipation and encounters
• The Vanishing Elephant
• London 2012 Festival and Cultural Olympiad round up in the South East – what’s coming up
• Cycle Song celebrates Scunthorpe's Olympic hero in the run up to the Games
• Gold Run: A multimedia performance celebrating London 2012 Paralympics and the Paralympics story

Theatre supported by the Arts Council includes work for specific audiences such as children or rural communities; theatres that serve their local audience and produce their own work; companies that focus on new writing, or devised work, or a particular artist; producers who champion individual artists or site specific work; companies that work within a particular cultural aesthetic; national companies such as the National Theatre and the RSC and much, much more.

We will support artists and organisations as they continue to challenge and experiment - with how they make work and how they reach audiences. In particular, we will champion artistic collaborations and ideas that increase opportunities for a wide range of artists and participants to experience the transformative powers of theatre.

We know that theatre is not created without taking risks and we will work alongside the sector to increase its ability to weather those risks - identifying new partners, markets and opportunities.

Theatre will contribute to our Achieving great art for everyone goals and priorities by:

• creating opportunities for artistic collaborations that increase the diversity of work available to audiences

• investing in the future of theatre by supporting professional development opportunities for artists and producers

• increasing access to theatre through touring; encouraging producers and promoters to work together to broaden their programmes and reach new audiences. Propeller's relationship with the Touring Partnership is an example of a collaboration in which all parties benefit
  

• exploiting the potential of digital technology, through broadcast such as NT Live, reaching audiences using social media (eg Hoi Polloi's Hugh Hughes) or making work such as Coney

• continuing to make exciting work for children and young people, such as Bristol Old Vic's Swallows and Amazons and 20 Stories High's Ghost Boy, including young people in the programming and creation of work as York Theatre Royal did with Take Over

• celebrating the role that theatres play in their communities and working to increase the range, quality and impact of the work they do