With Michael Sheen's The Passion uniting Port Talbot, and the Gulbenkian Foundation offering a new award, participatory theatre is on the up. But is it always as good as it can be?Many years ago, I spent some weeks following a participatory theatre project being created with a community in London. As the weeks went by and the numbers of participants dwindled, it became increasingly obvious that there was a complete d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AM on May 17, 2011