‘what happens after the play is the point of the play’
Gate are committed to telling stories from beyond our borders, and to do this we look for ways for our productions to have an impact beyond the script, the space, and the world created on stage.
Our Work
Gateways Programme
From this, Gateways was born – a series of workshops, talks, commissions, artist opportunities and curated events that offer our artists & audiences opportunities to learn more about our work, how our productions relate to the wider world, and develop their own practice and perspective.
Check out our current artist development strands through our Gateway opportunities:
Masterclasses
Our Masterclass Series invests in our artist network’s practice, perspective and knowledge of making theatre in the world we live in today. Presented by leading facilitators in international theatre in the UK and beyond, these workshops provide space for artists to learn from each other, bettering their understanding of how to make work that reaches further than the stage, and beyond our own world view.
Coffee Mornings
Join us for our monthly Coffee Morning at our Mayton Street office! It’s a relaxed space for artists to drop in and chat with the teams from all the companies we share space with—Gate, New Earth, Paines Plough and Tamasha. We host this on the first Wednesday of each month from 11 AM to 1 PM, so artists know when they can come by for a casual chat with our team. It’s not a space to pitch projects or shows, and we can’t promise specific team members will be there, but as a group of theatre companies, we’re all about building a community where artists of all levels can connect—whether or not they have something specific in mind to talk about.
Artist Surgeries
Have a specific question you need answering related to your practice and career, a project your working on, or just need a sounding board? Our Artist Surgeries are hosted monthly, and allow our artists to ask for advice or expertise around specific questions.
Slots will be offered first-come, first-served based on our team’s availability across all facets of the Gate team – producing, operations, marketing, fundraising and everything in-between.
Gateways and our productions
Alongside each Gate production, our Gateways programme serves to invite audiences and artists to connect with the themes of the play through related events and activities throughout the run. For Wish You Were Here, this included:
- A series of post-show panel discussions exploring responses from leading Iranian academics, artists, journalists, filmmakers and feminists to Wish You Were Here and the context within which we chose to produce this play. Speakers for these included Brenda Hale, Ramita Navai, Roxy Rezvany, Tara Aghdashloo, Sahar Zand, Ana Diamond and Christina Lamb.
- Three commissioned ‘playlets’ by Iranian heritage women playwrights, performed pre-show on Friday Nights – including Jasmin Mandi-Ghomi, Melina Namdar & Afsaneh Gray.
- Q&A with cast and creatives about the theatre-making process hosted by Creative Associate Atri Banerjee
- Our Sunday Sessions, where throughout the run of Wish You Were Here we welcomed, Phosphoros Theatre and Seemia Theatre into Theatro Technis to share space with us and host evenings of arts, music and sharing.
