Anyone interested in the history of housing and homelessness should take a Tube or bus to London Bridge and see Home Truths, a series of nine new plays performed by Cardboard Citizens at the Bunker – a 110-seat theatre in a former underground car park.
Theatre company Cardboard Citizens has toured hostels, day centres and prisons for 25 years, breaking down conventional divisions between audiences and performers.
Written by nine playwrights, Home Truths explores homelessness and charts the history of housing. The plays run in a cycle of three from 7 April to 13 May.
The series takes audiences on a journey from Victorian slums through the fifties to present-day tenant struggles taking in landlord greed, poverty, migration and racism.
Cardboard Citizens artistic director Adrian Jackson (below) says: “My hope is that Home Truths will offer, through the kaleidoscope of history, a glimpse of what is happening now and perhaps give us some glimpse of how we might find our way out of this mess.”
Tickets for one cycle are £15, concession £12. Two cycles £25, concessions £20. Three cycles £35 concessions £28. Triple bill days are Saturday 29 April at 12pm and Saturday 13 May at 12pm. More information at bunkertheatre.com.
