Have a look at some of Polly Wright, Artistic Director of the Hearth Centre 2020 publications on our publications page: These include The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on the Stage (Polly wrote a chapter on the early years…
Sue Beavan. Nurse, Partner, Dog lover. A monologue about the NHS Polly’s monologue was originally written for Women and Theatre’s 2014 piece – For the Past 30 years, which was a play written on the theme of women and work…
We are glad to announce that our writers’ reading group is going on in a virtual form! We continue to share literary role models in order to learn and improve our craft of writing, but now we’re meeting through Zoom…
The Arts Council England has awarded the Hearth Centre an award of Emergency funds to support the continuation of the organisation and to develop a six month project called Hidden Histories: Living in Times of National Emergency. For this Creative…
Pictures from the Hearth Centre’s wonderful performance of Revolving Door at the Old Joint Stock in June. Actors Todd Jennings, Vimal Korpal and Carl Thornley. Photography by Cardboard Zebra Pictures from the Hearth Centre’s wonderful performance of Revolving Door at…
The Hearth Centre invites you to celebrate the 70th birthday of the NHS with a reading by actors from the Hearth Centre of the play Cradle to Grave by Mandy Ross. 3pm Saturday 30th June 2018 at the Community Room, Middleton Road,…
We would be incredibly grateful for donations to facilitate the effective presentation of this play and subsequent talk. Please click on the image for more details. Graphic by CardboardZebra We would be incredibly grateful for donations to facilitate the effective…
Two brilliant photos of our meeting to discuss the book at the Hexagon. Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes… thrilling, magnificently audacious, the story of now… bit like the Writers Reading Group! #MBI2018
Please head on over to The Old Joint Stock Website for details and tickets. The play is always followed by a forum for discussion on the subject of suicide prevention. On June 27 2018 this will be in the form…
Here’s our book – Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes… Thrilling, magnificently audacious, the story of now… bit like the Writers Reading Group! #MBI2018 For details on Reading For Wellbeing, please follow the LINK Here’s our book – Vernon Subutex…
