Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens)
- Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens)
Adrian Jackson is the Artistic Director and founder of Cardboard Citizens the UK's only homeless people's professional theatre company. He founded Cardboard Citizen's in 1991 and since then he has directed over 20 productions for the company, devising and writing many of them. As well as producing many Forum Theatre pieces, Adrian has also directed all the company's larger-scale site-specific productions, including most recently Pericles, co-produced with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
He has worked as Augusto Boal's translator on five books: "Games for Actors and Non-Actors", "The Rainbow of Desires", "The Legislative Theatre", "Hamlet and the Baker' Son" (Boal's autobiography) and "The Aesthetics of the Oppressed"; he has led workshops with Boal on many occasions, and they collaborated on The Art of Legislation, an Artangel-sponsored piece of Legislative Theatre at County Hall in London.
As a leading expert on the Theatre of the Oppressed, Adrian is a well-travelled teacher and speaker. He has taught Theatre of the Oppressed work in many contexts, throughout Britain and Ireland, and in France, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, India, Colombia and Kosovo.
External links
* [http://www.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/ Cardboard Citizens]
* [http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/en/index.php?useFlash=1 Theatre of the Oppressed]
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