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ANNOUNCING LIBERATION SQUARES

A world premiere co-production by Fifth Word and Nottingham Playhouse in association with Brixton House Join us next Spring in Nottingham or on tour for this sharp, funny, brilliant new…
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See Me: Creative Participation Project

About See Me is a creative participation project which ran over Spring-Summer 2023, alongside the development of our play, Liberation Squares by Sonali Bhattacharyya. Supported by funding from Awards for…
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Your Voice

Do you live in Mansfield? Are you aged between 14-19? ( or up to 25 years old if you identify as having a disability) Interested in different ways of telling…
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Launching We Need New Stories

Ritah Outhwaite – Oral History Interviewee We Need new Stories will gather & platform stories of migration from first-generation Zimbabweans in Nottingham & dramatise them as audio plays following interviews…
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New Adaptation of We Need New Names

Mufaro Makubika to write a new play for the stage based on Booker prize shortlisted novel WE NEED NEW NAMES by NoViolet Bulawayo In the midst of an exhausting year-…
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LAVA – Full Casting Announced!

We’re thrilled to announce full casting for our UK tour of LAVA by award winning writer James Fritz. Kacey Ainsworth, Dan Parr, Safiyya Ingar and Fred Fergus make up our…
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Meet our writers!

Fifth Word are delighted to announce two new collaborations with east midlands- writers Mufaro Makubika and Sophie Ellerby. Both Sophie and Mufaro are fast rising writers who we believe will…
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New Associates at Oxford Playhouse

  Fifth Word are thrilled to announce that we are new associate artists at Oxford Playhouse! Over the next 12 months, we’ll be getting under the skin of all things…