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Review of Key ChangeWe are proud of Eliza Strassheim from Mortal Fools Youth Theatre Ensemble, who has shared her review of Key Change, captured by…

Our brand new digital Annual Review 2019-2020 is available for you to read online!We advocate. We listen. We empower. We challenge. We act. We ignite…

Artistic Director and Playwright, Catrina McHugh MBE, commissioned to write 40 stories to celebrate the 40th birthday of our partner and home, West End Women…

Our Executive Director, Ellie Turner, blogs about parenting through Covid-19 lockdown.I look back on that Sunday night. The one before the first real week of…

Blog by Jessica Bennett (Arts Administrator during ‘lockdown’)As social distancing continues but lockdown is lifting, we ‘throw back’ to May 2020, and hear from our…

We stand to denounce racism in all its forms.We, the undersigned from the cultural sector of the North East, declare that silence is not ok…

Paines Plough and Open Clasp Theatre Company Present Come to Where I Am: NewcastlePlays launched on Wednesday 27th May on YouTubeThree new writers, who have…

#GivingTuesdayNow #GTN #DeafAwarenessWeekFor this extra Giving Tuesday we would like you to join us and support us in giving away our BSL version of Rattle…

Blog by Creative Producer, Carly McConnellYesterday, I awoke in a bad mood. So, I channelled my anger into words behind my closed door. “Calls to…

All of our plays are co-created with women who share their real-life experiences. These include domestic abuse, mental health issues, sexual abuse, childhood sexual abuse,…

New blog from Artistic Director, Catrina McHugh and a guest contributor, Angie Watters, the Oaktrees Recovery Project North Shields Counsellor, a project run by Changing…

GCSE and A Level Drama students from Robert Clack School, a mixed comprehensive school in Dagenham, watched and reviewed Key Change online during home learning.Drama…

Be an activist. Join the movement.We are currently looking for new trustees (board members) to help us grow and improve.Open Clasp is fully committed to…

Sugar previewed to a private audience of members, partners and collaborators at Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne on the 5th March in the run up…

Dear members, partners and friends,Today with our newsletter, we want to connect with you, our supporters, to let you know we are here. To tell you what we…

We are thrilled to officially announce the cast of Sugar, an unflinching trilogy which honours the hard realities of lives lived in and around the…

Arts AdministratorSalary:          NJC Scale 6 – £19,171 pro rataPart Time:   21hrsAward-winning women’s theatre company Open Clasp is looking to appoint an…

A final year student from Newcastle University has written a great review of Rattle Snake following a screening at The Sage, Gateshead as part of…