‘Outreach’ work can often re-enforce inequality by reflecting the worst of a person’s lived experience back at them, warns Nathan Lucky Wood.
In a cold function room in a London youth centre, fifteen young homeless people are watching a play. It tells the story of a young woman who finally gets a council flat after years of sofa surfing, only to lose her tenancy when she allows her deadbeat friend to stay, rent-free. The actors are not professionals; they’ve been brought together under the aegis of a medium-sized London theatre as part of a community project... Keep reading on Exeunt Magazine
In a cold function room in a London youth centre, fifteen young homeless people are watching a play. It tells the story of a young woman who finally gets a council flat after years of sofa surfing, only to lose her tenancy when she allows her deadbeat friend to stay, rent-free. The actors are not professionals; they’ve been brought together under the aegis of a medium-sized London theatre as part of a community project... Keep reading on Exeunt Magazine