Cardboard Citizens

Cardboard Citizens is the UK's only homeless people's professional theatre company, and the leading practitioner of Forum Theatre and the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology in the UK. The acclaimed Theatre Company works with people who have experience of homelessness or those at risk of becoming homeless to create theatre that makes a real and positive difference to society and those living in its margins.

Cardboard Citizens was founded in 1991 by Adrian Jackson in the Cardboard City which had sprung up in what was then called the Bullring in Waterloo as a London Bubble project. For the first four years it toured Forum Theatre by homeless people to other homeless people throughout the UK, performing in hostels, day centres, arches, the street and conference centres.

Cardboard Citizens became an independent entity in 1995 and now regularly tours acclaimed Forum Theatre productions written by playwrights including Kate Tempest (Glasshouse), Ali Taylor (Cathy) and Sarah Woods (Meta) across the UK to theatres, prisons, hostels and community venues. It has also mounted a number of critically acclaimed theatre productions in both site-specific locations and as collaborations with other larger organisations, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and English National Opera. These have included the Evening Standard Theatre Award-winning Mincemeat, A Few Man Fridays, Pericles and Timon Of Athens (both RSC). In 2016 the company staged a Community Ensemble theatrical staging of Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home to mark the film's 50th anniversary and the Theatre Company's 25th anniversary. This Event Theatre work fits with Cardboard Citizens’ broader mission of using theatre to ask questions of individual, society and nation, why are things the way they are and how could they be better.

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