‘Their Theatre and Ours’ – Joey Simons

Join us on Thursday 30th October from 6-9pm for the opening of Joey Simons’ solo exhibition Their Theatre and Ours – open throughout November at Market Gallery.

Situated within the history of the workers’ theatre movement, Their Theatre and Ours examines what it may mean to act in the midst of an inferno.

The exhibition plays with the forms & methods of long-dead movements to rehearse the creation of a workers’ theatre and question if such a possibility remains today. Drawing on practices of amateur translation and performance to connect ideas across language and time, Their Theatre and Ours is an open-ended investigation into the politics of the theatrical and the real.

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Joey Simons is an artist and writer working across video, theatre, research, publishing and community arts to explore the traditions and contradictions of the city’s militant political cultures. Through reconfigurations of worker-poets, communist opera-goers, street orators and autodidacts, dead and alive, new forms of immanent critique may emerge from the wreckage of defeat.