Bold writing from the West Midlands’ leading writers’ collective
RECENT WORK
Our latest site-specific show took audiences on a theatrical journey through the heart of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. It ran for eighteen shows as part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Festival and Birmingham Heritage Week.
FOUR STARS – Reviews Hub
“A gem of a production. Bravo!” –audience member
WHAT WE DO
Over 20 evenings of new plays at the Birmingham Rep, a promenade show set in a Victorian prison that was so popular people actually wanted to go back to jail, a walking tour of Digbeth revealing our most private memories, and a garden party with the ‘lunatiks’ of Soho House…
For eight busy working writers, we’ve done a lot since we started working together. Are you interested in working with us too?
WRITE WITH BOLDTEXT
BOLDtext Playwright don’t just write plays. We provide workshops as well. Between us we’ve worked in theatre, radio, television, musicals, opera and prose, and we love sharing what we’ve learnt with colleges, universities, SEN students, and aspiring/emerging writers.
Previous partners include BBC Academy, Argent College, Warwick Words, and Birmingham’s Pen Museum.
“Thoughtful, sensitive, witty, and engaging. My kind of theatre.”
Ola Animashawun, Euphoric Ink & National Theatre
“BOLDtext are guilty of putting on a captivating show.”
British Theatre Review on Behind Bars: Ghosts of the Lock-Up
“There wasn’t a moment I didn’t believe every word!”
Audience member
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