Blog post from Jenny

Early this year our Artistic Director Jenny wrote a blog piece to mark the 10 year anniversary of Ardent Theatre Company. Ardent, set up by ex-Globie Mark Sands, is a theatre company dedicated to ending class inequality in theatre and combatting socio-economic and geographic barriers to careers in the theatre industry. This is am aim very close to our hearts! Here is an excerpt of her blog post for Ardent:

In 1966 my parents started The Globe Players. They wanted to share their love of theatre, and particularly of Shakespeare, with all young people. Over the last 58 years the company has taken on various forms and has employed hundreds of young actors, touring schools and playing to thousands of young people, many of whom will have had our visit as their first and perhaps only experience of theatre….that we are able to give young actors that first experience of professional theatre is one of the things that has kept us fighting to carry on through the tough times (and times have been very tough over the years). Like Ardent we have always prided ourselves on paying an equity wage.

You can read the whole post here.