Komola Collective

According to Stage 100 list, UK theatres are dominated by white, middle class men.

So this is the overall picture. But have we ever wondered how the theatre practitioners from diverse backgrounds, especially women, survive in this exclusivist industry? How does it really affect individual theatre artists to go on? We often forget that it always comes down to individuals and to their never ending struggle just to be.

We are five theatre practitioners, will talk about and share our personal journeys of survival in this theatre industry. How we have sustained, what makes us go on and be so hopelessly loyal to our crafts. We are all from diverse and marginal backgrounds. We are brown, we are black, we are ethnic, we are short, we are disabled but we are all professional theatre practitioners and we would like to know why we are only too often included as a box-ticking exercise.