Home Run | Camden People's Theatre

Home Run is our largest-scale commissioning scheme.

"Home Run transformed how we work. It allowed us to make an ambitious show (5 cast members and a large set) and to lever funding to support the company financially, leading to our producer becoming full-time and sustaining the company with a robust business plan.” – Milk Presents

Home Run supports artists with a £5,000 cash commission and free rehearsal space – as well as artistic, fundraising, marketing and business planning support – to develop a project from work-in-progress to three-week run of a fully realised production. Which is then shown as a prominent part of our artistic programme.

Made possible thanks to the generous support of Jerwood Arts and Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Home Run is designed to support early-career artists making the difficult transition from work-in-progress to a substantial run of a full production.

Home Run commissions - the story so far:

Bullish by Milk Presents, which headlined our ‘Come As You Are’ festival in Sept 2017 – then our touring version of that festival in autumn 2018.

So Many Reasons by Racheal Ofori and Fuel, which headlined our ‘Calm Down, Dear’ festival in January 2018.

Gwei Mui / Ghost Girl 鬼妹 by Jennifer Tang, presented in partnership with Chinese Arts Now in January 2019.

The Elephant in the Room by Lanre Malaolu, presented at CPT in April 2019 as part of a season of work exploring mental health and wellbeing.

Trigger Warning by Eurotrash (Natasha Nixon and Marcelo dos Santos), headlined our ‘Handle with Care’ festival in October 2019.

Milk Presents presents

Bullish

Tue 12 - Wed 27 Sep2017

Commissioned by CPT. A lyrical new play exploring trans and non-binary identity through the lens of greek mythology. Cheeky, raucous and irreverent.

Comedy

Racheal Ofori presents

So Many Reasons

Tues 16 Jan - Sat 3 Feb2018

Exploring cultural and generational shifts in how women see themselves and each other, this sassy and soulful new show asks what happens when we realise mums don't always know best.

Jennifer Tang presents

Gwei Mui / Ghost Girl 鬼妹

22 Jan - 9 Feb2019

A powerful new show asking what it really means to be British and Chinese, and how family, love and belonging all shape who and what we are.

Lanre Malaolu presents

Elephant in the Room

Tue 02 - Sat 13 April2019

An explosive dance theatre solo that explores the stigma attached to mental health in working class black men, toxic masculinity and what happens when the floodgates open...

Physical Theatre

Spoken Word

EUROTRASH presents

TRIGGER WARNING

Tue 22 Oct - Sat 9 Nov2019

Absurd, comic and dangerous, Trigger Warning fuses movement, text and lipsync to push 'content warnings' to their breaking point (and beyond). Created by Marcelo Dos Santos and Natasha Nixon.

Comedy

Camden People's Theatre RealFake present

English Kings Killing Foreigners: Available To Stream

Available until 26th July 20242024

'A Shakespeare deconstruction destined for the West End' - City AM. Shakespeare's Globe veterans Nina & Phil present a tell-all dark comedy which asks: Who is Shakespeare for? Now available to stream.

Comedy

History

Physical Theatre