Hydroponic is a facility for dramaturgically developing and co-producing culturally diverse new writing for performance for the 21st century.
This is a core partnership between writernet and the South Street venue in Reading, with support from Arts Council England and Reading Borough Council.
Hydroponic operates locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to develop culturally diverse artists and to capacity-build companies, capitalising on the expertise of writernet and the dramaturgical skills of the playwright and critic Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Hydroponic is currently co-producing Mela by Tajinder Singh Hayer with West Yorkshire Playhouse (July 2008), working with Roney Fraser Munro on the Resident project (June-November 2008) and co-producing Abolition by Gabriel Gbadamosi with the Arcola Theatre (January-February 2009)
As part of the project, Hydroponic has successfully commissioned and staged showcase readings of new plays at Soho Theatre in London and South Street in Reading, from Linda Brogan, Nirjay Mahindru, Dawn Garrigan and Anita Franklin.
Hydroponic has co-produced new pieces by Jonzi D & Jane Sekonya for Jonzi D productions, Safe by David Hermanstein for West Yorkshire Playhouse, For One Night Only by Dipo Agboluaje & by Letting Go by Rukshana Ahmed for Pursued by a Bear.
Hydroponic has taken Linda Brogan to Belgrade, Tampere and Graz to participate in the Fence network of European playwrights and cultural operators and the Janus translation project; and has taken Dipo Agboluage to Paris and Istanbul as part of the French-British Acts of Translation project and the Fence network.
Hydroponic:
- has run masterclasses with Gabriel Gbadamosi, Peter Badejo, Cartoon Da Salvo, Annabel Arden, Ramon Abad and Eleanor Margolies.
- has supported regional writers Angela Street, Janette Parris, Bobbie Dahdi, Lekha Morrison, Michelle Da Costa, Bridget Whelan, Uschi Gatward and Debbie Plentie.
- works in regional collaboration with The Maltings in Farnham and New Writing South in Brighton.
- has supported local writers Mary Took, Julia Titus, John Sailsman and Steven Macaulay to develop their work at South Street.
- facilitated a Life Writing programme to engage with South Street's diverse communities, to be delivered by Rukshana Ahmed and Helena Bell of Pursued By a Bear.
Hydroponic benefits from Gabriel Gbadamosi's AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship at Goldsmiths College, University of London, which allows time for critical reflection and engagement with best practice towards the modelling and remodelling of culturally diverse work.
Through the scope of its partnerships, its impact, its strategic vision, its interconnecting of artist and audience development, its ability to strengthen the work of artists and companies towards performance - Hydroponic is sustained theatre for the 21st century.
Hydroponic is a partnership between writernet, South Street, Reading Borough Council and ACE SE around playwriting and cultural diversity.
The Second Hydroponic Programme has 3 interconnected elements: national, regional and local.
For details of the First Hydroponic Programme, please click here
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