Past Legislative Theatre projects

Legislative Theatre brings constituents, policymakers, and advocates together to impact policies, practices and place-making, for unique and effective solutions to complex challenges.

We have worked with the world-leader in LT, Katy Rubin to bring this participatory democracy methodology to the councils in which we work.

The LT process involves groups of people who have experienced homelessness and council workers staging improvised plays together which explore blockages in the systems. These plays are performed in front of an audience made up of members of homelessness services and policy makers. The audience can suggest changes to the narratives and resulting solutions are voted on and passed into legislation. So far, in each of the councils in which we have worked – Coventry, Medway and Haringey (left) this has led to new, co-created Homelessness Strategies. We have also worked with Housing Rights in Northern Ireland to co-create policy proposals with the government and police around homelessness prevention for women who have been the victim of domestic abuse.

We are particularly grateful for the support of Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Albert Hunt Trust which underpins this work. If you are interested in signing up to our new Legislative Theatre projects across the UK, visit our page here. And read policy changes from previous projects/see films below.