Az theatre history

2014-15:

WAR AND PEACE: RESURRECTION event.
Final workshops for THE BRIDGE project in Istanbul, Turkey.*

2013-14:

Company Development of THEATRE SENZA.
WAR AND PEACE launch.
CHECK OUT reading.
Az blog features Messages from Gaza.
Initial workshops on THE BRIDGE project in Yerevan, Armenia.*

2012-13:

WAR AND PEACE: GAZA (PALESTINE) – LONDON (UK) developed.
MAPPA MUNDI bid partnership formed with Therapy Box and University of East London.

2011-12:

GAZA: OPENING SIGNS.
Consultancy for Manor Gardens Trust.
MAPPA MUNDI workshops in Holloway.

2010-11:

Research on ecology and economics: Chadwick receives M.Sc. in Ecological Economics from the School of Earth and Environment at University of Leeds.
GAZA: BREATHING SPACE FILM.
Initial development of MAPPA MUNDI

2009-10:

GAZA DRAMA LONG TERM cultural exchange programme with Theatre for Everybody in Gaza, first phase in partnership with Soho Theatre, GAZA: GUERNICA.
PEOPLES PALLADIUM: YERMA project.
Research on ecology and economics.
GAZA: BREATHING SPACE project. Support from Scurrah Wainwright Trust, J A Clark Trust.

2008-9:

Presentation of LIFE ON THE BORDERLINE by Hoshiar at 4 London venues.
Research in Kashmir for MILlITH KARAV, an extension of the War Stories project.
Soho Theatre/Az Theatre GAZA DRAMA event.
Staged reading of HOUSE OF MANY TONGUES by Jonathan Garfinkle.
Soulfire Theatre’s BLOOD WEDDING and formation of the PEOPLES PALLADIUM.
First meeting of theatre makers and economists to explore theatre and economics, THE DEAL.

2007-8:

Company Development Project: initial workshop series for the Soulfire Theatre/People’s Palladium project.
Development of WAR STORIES: ALCESTIS/STATES project with TRINITY LABAN research award.
Workshop with Central School of Speech and Drama on Tabori’s CANNIBALS.

2006-7:

International Workshop programme WAR STORIES: ALCESTIS Stories of Recovery and Dialogues with Death with companies in Algeria, Kosovo, Italy, Palestine and the UK, Festivals in Sibiu, Romania and Trabzon, Turkey, Padua Bienniale Festival of Theatre and Psychiatry. Funded by European Cultural Foundation.
Az Theatre becomes a Charity.
Producer Development Fund initiated.

2005-6:

Association with United Nations Office of Missing Persons and Forensics in Kosovo and Multimedia Centre on THE LONGEST WINTER and VOICES.

2004-5:

WAR STORIES season at Oh Art! In Bethnal Green, London. Events, Fora, Exhibition, readings and the presentation of three plays: ATSUMORI by Motokiyo Zeami, STRIVE by Stephen Lowe and WOMEN IN WAR by Jawad Al Asadi, featuring Az Associates Elsa Mollien and Annabel Capper. Funded by Arts Council England. Earlier description of the development of WAR STORIES in an article by Jonathan Chadwick in Artes Sur, an Argentinian theatre journal