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At People's Theatre Collective, we are passionate about empowering young people through the arts.

Our theatre and creative arts workshops and productions provide a safe and inclusive space for young people to express themselves and develop their skills.

05/11/2026

And just like that, the Tell Your Story Festival for 2026 is over! 🎊

Thank you to everyone who came and helped us, whether you came along and took part in a workshop, you watched one of our lovely performances or you helped us in any way, we're incredibly grateful! ✨️

Just in case you missed it, we've put together a highlight reel to show all the best bits, starting with Gargantua and finishing with our Play in a day! 🎥✨️

Want to join in for our next project? Keep your eyes peeled, something exciting is happening in January!

Can't wait until then? Come join our regular sessions, fund out more on the website (link in bio)

See you soon!

02/11/2026

The behind the scenes of our 'Play in a day' done by our young people! Inspired by the summer show 'The Scar', they planned, wrote, and devised a play in one day! ✨️

01/11/2026

A sneak peak behind the scenes of our procession yesterday !

31/10/2026

🎶 We love the island, we do! 🎶

💃🏻Today we processed around Banbury presenting vignettes from our summer show The Scar, samba drumming and dancing !

🎭 The procession is a celebration of the work made during our week of creative workshops as part of our 5th Tell Your Story Festival ! We had arts and crafts, new puppets, stage combat, samba drumming and dance.

It was so much fun to bring our play to the people of Banbury! 🎉🎉 We definitely caught the attention of people in the town centre 👀 Did you see us?

31/10/2026

We had so many people get stuck in with arts and crafts this week during our drop in at The People’s House, Castle Quay 🎨🖌️🖼️

It was lovely to see so many families who live in Banbury and the children from the Umar Centre who spent two lovely, arty days with us !

Our Girls Group from The Hill Banbury have also spent the week installing their beautiful exhibition, made to empower girls. It’s been wonderful to see it all come together and watch everyone contribute !

30/10/2026

Puppet making workshop!

Yesterday and today, the young people have been making more umphlings with the help of the brilliant robin ! and Nico ! Meet granny umphling and baby umphling! ✨️🖌

30/10/2026

Today’s rehearsals for Saturday’s procession through the centre of Banbury began with Samba drumming 🥁🥁

Catch us in and around Castle Quay at 2pm tomorrow for an immersive experience of our summer show The Scar !

30/10/2026

The Launch of The People’s House last night was a huge success !

As we open this amazing space in Castle Quay for young people use for their creative endeavours, People’s Theatre Collective is entering a new era.

Thank you to the Mayor of Banbury for coming and showing his support. And thank you to all the young people, colleagues, People’s Theatre alumni and Banbury community for joining us too !

We can’t wait to see what our young people get up to in this new, exciting space ✨🎭🎤🎉

2) Departing Artistic Director Tristan talking about his time with the company and how it developed him as a person and artist.

3) Some of our CORE group talking about what this space and being a part of People’s Theatre Collective means to them. Followed by Debs, our Strategic Director

4) The founders of People’s Theatre Collective formerly Cherwell Theatre Company Nasser Memarzia and Karen Corradi talking about their mission to set up a theatrical community in Banbury in 2004.

5) Our Associate Director Michael performing their infamous “cheese song” from their 2017 production of Treasure Island with alumni Simon

6) Alumni Jess and Krage performing an extract of their production 2022 ‘Sam and Zoe vs Evermore’

7) Some of our young people performing a scene from ‘Myth’ with our company alumni Liam

29/10/2026

Address

The Mill Arts Centre Spiceball Park Road
Banbury
OX165QE

Website

http://www.peoplestheatrecollective.org.uk/, https://www.peoplestheatrecollective.org.uk/tell-your-story-festival

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