Sing For Your Supper: Pauperism, Performance, and Survival

The Matron. Photograph courtesy of Joel Chester Fildes.

Come what may the house enables us to say: I will be an inhabitant of the world, in spite of the world.1 This essay presents a piece of performance research that brought together a theatre-maker/performer and a theatre researcher to explore the relationships between theatre and poverty. Our collaboration was just one part of a broader research project,…