Title: Living Newspaper Series

Living Newspaper is a major writer-based project drawing on the radical history of the Federal Theatre Project of the US – an arts programme to mobilise and employ unemployed artists and theatre workers surfacing from the Great Depression. The Royal Court will create six editions of living newspapers for our times, led by writers, and working with freelance artists – actors, designers, stage managers, technicians and choreographers. Each weekly edition will be created and edited by a collective of writers to make a live newspaper with headlines, features and columns, which will be performed in spaces around the Royal Court building. Editions will include satire of the week’s events, alongside long-form think pieces. There will be weekly dating columns, cartoons, the world in pictures, a sports section and a surprise theatre supplement.