Graeae, the UK’s leading disabled-led theatre company, has announced its first chamber opera, multi-award-winning composer Errollyn Wallen’s The Paradis Files. Directed by Graeae’s artistic director Jenny Sealey, the opera inspired by the life of 18th century Austrian musician Maria-Theresia von Paradis will begin preview performances at Leicester Curve on 8 April 2022 ahead of its […]
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Stage Awards nomination for #WeShallNotBeRemoved campaign
The UK Disability Arts Alliance’s #WeShallNotBeRemoved campaign has been shortlisted for The Stage Awards’ Community Project of the Year 2022. Set up in April 2020, the campaign was created by Jenny Sealey, the artistic director of Graeae Theatre Company, and former Government disability champion Andrew Miller to amplify the voices of the creative disabled community […]
Graeae launches Beyond scheme to give a voice to disabled artists after Covid
Graeae, the UK’s leading disabled-led theatre company, has launched a major new initiative aiming to shape the role that disabled artists will play as UK theatre tries to rebuild following the Covid-crisis. Championed by Graeae patrons Harriet Walter and Mat Fraser, BEYOND aims to integrate disabled artists into the creative structures of theatres and to create […]
Reasons To Be Cheerful – Graeae Theatre Company – YouTube
Reasons To Be Cheerful, available to stream on YouTube until 3 August 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Thank you, Graeae Theatre Company. Since 1980, they have done incredible work centring and celebrating D/deaf and disabled artists while producing stunning works of theatre, and this week they have achieved what I […]
Graeae to launch digital lockdown progamme
Graeae, the UK’s leading disabled-led theatre company, has unveiled an 11-week programme of online activity aimed at providing audiences with a rich variety of work while the country remains in lockdown. Launching on 20 April 2020 Crips Without Constraints – A Play, A Podcast, A Picture will celebrate the creativity of Deaf and disabled artists […]
Performer news for Graeae’s 2017 Reasons To Be Cheerful tour
Casting has been announced for pioneering theatre company Graeae’s return to the road with its acclaimed musical Reasons To Be Cheerful this autumn. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ album New Boots and Panties, the show which celebrates the music of the legendary punk band will begin its seven-venue 2017 […]
Graeae’s Reasons To Be Cheerful back on tour in the autumn
Pioneering theatre company Graeae is to take its acclaimed musical Reasons To Be Cheerful back on the road this autumn. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ album ‘New Boots and Panties’, the show which celebrates the music of the legendary punk band will begin its 2017 tour at the Belgrade, […]
The Threepenny Opera – Nottingham Playhouse and Touring
The Threepenny Opera continues at Nottingham Playhouse until 8 March , then tours until 10 May. We owe it to Graeae Theatre Company, the pioneering London-based ensemble that classes itself, rightly, as ‘a force for change in the theatre, breaking down barriers, challenging preconceptions, boldly placing disabled artists centrestage’ that this often stunning production of […]
