Last year, theatre company Cardboard Citizens staged an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, a tragedy about a rich man who falls victim to his own generosity. Director Adrian Jackson reinterpreted the play as taking place in a management seminar, a sharkpool of smooth talkers and schemers. It was a clever move, celebrated by critics for giving new life to one of Shakespeare’s more obscure works. But perhaps the most unusual thing about Cardboard Citizens is that the company’s actors all have direct personal experience of homelessness. And now they’re taking on the managerial classes for real, with a series of workshops and events for corporate clients.
Cardboard Citizens: taking theatre from the hostel to the boardroom
Have you ever got to the end of a play and thought 'I would have done that differently'? Well, Cardboard Citizens are asking the audience what they think - and the audience is lapping it up. Taking their special brand of theatre, performed by homeless people, into boardrooms is opening up new options for them, and for big corporations. Hannah Forbes Black finds out how.
18 Apr 2007 12:00
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