Gay Sweatshop

Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company
Company typeIndependent Theatre Company
Founded1975
FounderDrew Griffiths, Alan Pope, Roger Baker, Alan Wakeman (author), Laurence Collinson, John Roman Baker, E. D. Berman, Gerald Chapman, Philip Osment, Suresa Galbraith and Norman Coates
Defunct1997

The Gay Sweatshop, founded in 1975, was Britain's first professional gay theatre company[1][2]. In their original manifesto, the stated purpose was "To counteract the prevailing perception in mainstream theatre of what homosexuals are like, therefore providing a more realistic image for the public and to increase the general awareness of the oppression of sexuality, both gay and straight, the impact it has on people’s lives and the society that reinforces it."[3]

References

  1. ^ Itzin, Catherine (1980). Stages in the Revolution (1st ed.). Routledge. pp. 234–237. ISBN 9781032046891.
  2. ^ "The Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-02-27.
  3. ^ "Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company – Unfinished Histories". Retrieved 2026-02-27.
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