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ABSTRACT
This short article explores The Resilience Web, a 2015 project designed and delivered by Doorstep Arts (Torbay, South Devon). Doorstep Arts is a partner in the Collaborative Touring Network, a touring partnership with Battersea Arts Centre. The economic framework holding such practice is undeniably skeletal and fragile, requiring invisible and often unpaid labour to ensure survival during its early stages in an area formally classed as ‘deprived’. Within this eight-month project, children and young people from Torbay created original devised theatre around themes of resilience, resistance, revelry and risk-taking. The emerging practice in the region is precarious, but necessary.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes on contributor
Dr Erin Walcon is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Exeter, where she specialises in Applied Theatre. She is one of three co-directors of Doorstep Arts in Torbay and serves as a regional producer for the Collaborative Touring Network in partnership with Battersea Arts Centre.
Notes
1. For more information about Doorstep Arts, please go to http://www.doorsteparts.co.uk/ [Accessed 27 May 2016]. Also see the review of Doorstep Arts’ work as part of the Collaborative Touring Network in Gardner (Citation2015).
2. National Portfolio Organisations receive a three-year funding commitment from Arts Council England, the agency responsible for investing government money to support art and culture across England.