Dash Arts

08/06/2026

🎭 TAKE PART IN OUR PUBLIC HOUSE AT MARYLEBONE THEATRE! 🎭

We’re looking for Londoners aged 18+ to help shape and perform in Our Public House at Marylebone Theatre.

This is a unique opportunity to share your voice, take part in creative workshops and rehearsals, and perform as part of the production.

No professional theatre experience is required

📅 Speech Writing Workshop
Friday 12 June, 2–6pm
📅 Rehearsals
Monday 22 June, 5–8pm
🎭 Performances
Participants will be invited to take part in two or more performances at Marylebone Theatre.
✅ Open to anyone 18+
📍 London-based participants encouraged to apply
🔗 Sign up via the link in our bio
⏰ Applications close this Wednesday, so don’t miss your chance to get involved.

05/06/2026

🍻 Why see Our Public House?

It’s funny, moving, and full of stories that feel close to home!

🎟️ Book now at: dasharts.org.uk

05/06/2026

Upcoming event!

Songs of Solidarity: Migrant Imagination and the Courage to Tell Your Story
Monday 15 June, 1pm-5pm
Goldsmiths, University of London

This Refugee Week, Dash Arts and Projekt Europa join the Migrant Futures Institute for an afternoon of conversation, storytelling and live performance exploring migration, belonging and the courage to tell your own story.

Featuring artists, writers and researchers from the developing music-theatre project Songs of Solidarity, alongside live readings, audience discussion and a musical performance from Mohamed Najem.

Free to attend, but spaces are limited. Book your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-solidarity-migrant-imagination-and-the-courage-to-tell-your-story-tickets-1990159795522

04/06/2026

“On first glance, we judge people. Theatre gives us time to see beyond the surface.”

Dash Arts’ Artistic Director Josephine Burton has been interviewed by Byline Times Editor-in-Chief Hardeep Matharu about Our Public House, the conversations that shaped it, and why theatre can hold complexity in ways that politics so often cannot.

The interview explores everything from political alienation and community to Englishness, belonging and the importance of spaces where people can still come together and talk.

It also features two of the real-life speech-makers who have taken to the stage as part of Our Public House, sharing their own reflections on identity, masculinity, community and the future.

Read the full interview: https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/02/we-can-see-beyond-the-surface-and-understand-that-this-character-this-person-is-much-more-complicated-theatre-can-give-you-that/

🍻Our Public House is now touring England! Next stop Belgrade Theatre, Coventry 4th-6th June, 2026.

Byline Times’ Editor in Chief speaks to Josephine Burton – creator and director of a new play ‘Our Public House’ by Dash Arts which examines political alienation in Britain today – and two real-life speech-makers taking to the stage each night

03/06/2026

Out now! Lynne Murphy on OffScript

"English as a language is not a place, it's people."

In the latest episode of Dash Arts' podcast OffScript, Artistic Director Josephine Burton is joined by linguist Lynne Murphy: ie Lynneguist, for a fascinating conversation about the language we think we own.

Together they explore how English was shaped by invasion, migration, class and empire - and why its ability to absorb new words, new voices and new speakers is precisely what keeps it alive.

If English belongs to everyone who speaks it, what does that mean for Englishness?

It's a question that sits at the heart of Albion and Our Public House - our new touring production built from conversations with more than 700 people across England.

Listen Now: https://www.dasharts.org.uk/podcast-1/albion-billy-bragg-x4ezd-sen7p-77ejm

02/06/2026

"A heartfelt portrait of divided Britain." -The Guardian

"Couldn't be more timely... earnest and important." - The Stage

"Lingers long after the curtain falls." - Fairy Powered Productions

Join us for a powerful story of community and connection.

29/05/2026

Over the past few months, Albion - the special mini-series within Dash Arts’ podcast OffScript - has become a space for conversations about identity, history, belonging and what England means today.

Through Albion, Dash Arts’ Artistic Director Josephine Burton has spoken with artists, writers, musicians, journalists and thinkers including Billy Bragg, Caroline Lucas, Jeremy Deller, Hardeep Matharu, Shobana Jeyasingh and Paula Akpan - each bringing a completely different perspective to the same urgent question: who gets to feel at home in England?

Together, these conversations have explored protest and folk music, migration and empire, language and community, nationalism and memory. They’ve challenged fixed ideas of Englishness and opened up space for something more layered, contradictory and alive.

These ideas continue in Our Public House, now touring England - a play built from voices gathered across the country, where debate, music and community take centre stage.

• Listen back to the full Albion series: https://www.dasharts.org.uk/albion-albionseries
• Book tickets for Our Public House: https://www.dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house

Albion Albion is our current exploration of modern Englishness, in all its complexity. The Series began in 2022 with The Great Middlemarch Mystery and will finish in 2026 with Our Public House.Listen to our podcast series, documenting the journeyacross landscape and language, digging deep into folk....

28/05/2026

Tonight we open Our Public House at Shakespeare North Playhouse!

Followed by:
Belgrade Theatre - 4 - 6 June
Sheffield Theatres - 17 - 20 June
Marylebone Theatre -30 June - 4 July

Book your tickets now!

www.dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house

26/05/2026

Reviews are in for Our Public House!

Coming to:
North Playhouse - 26 - 30 May
Belgrade Theatre - 4 - 6 June
Sheffield Theatres - 17 - 20 June
Marylebone Theatre - 30 June - 4 July

Book your tickets now! dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house

23/05/2026

Take a look at the Our Public House trailer!

Coming to:
Shakespeare North Playhouse - 26 - 30 May
Belgrade Theatre - 4 - 6 June
Sheffield Theatres - 17 - 20 June
Marylebone Theatre - 30 June - 4 July

Tickets at - dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house