ice&fire

Description

ice&fire explores human rights stories through performance, putting human rights at the core of its work to make accessible theatre for a wide range of audiences across the UK. The company develops original theatre pieces from human rights testimony and documentary evidence, with each piece shaped by the real people and communities it works closely with. Its output ranges from full-scale productions to small pieces made with vulnerable groups, and its theatre-making is described as provocative, principled and innovative. The company holds that theatre can bring understanding and empathy to urgent global issues, and aims to empower people and communities to express their rights through sharing stories and performance. Its mission is to inspire artists and audiences to create positive change in the world through human rights.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2003

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Partner Infrastructures

Reprieve

Reprieve is a human rights charity based in London, founded in 1999. It is a small team of lawyers, investigators, and campaigners working to end the death penalty, torture, unlawful detention, rendit… read more about Reprieve

London

Partner Universities

Lancaster University

Royal Holloway, University of London

University of Birmingham

University of Essex

University of Manchester

University of Reading

University of Surrey

University of Sussex

University of Warwick, Coventry

University of York

Additional Partnerships

Amnesty International; Save the Children; British Red Cross; War Child; Refugee Action; The Children's Society; Room to Heal; Freedom From Torture; Barrow Cadbury Trust; Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance; City of Sanctuary (Theatre of Sanctuary); Wort und Herzschlag (Germany); National Institute of Dramatic Art (Australia); Foreign and Commonwealth Office; NHS; Department of Health; UK Border Agency; South Yorkshire Police; Sheffield Council Extended Services