Bloomshed theatre company on Animal Farm: ‘You can say the dangerous things you want to say’

Bloomshed's James Jackson and Elizabeth Brennan talk Animal Farm and making bold theatre that engages and entertains.
Bloomshed's Animal Farm. Photo: Sarah Walker.

‘Our decisions are made on consensus,’ says James Jackson of independent Melbourne theatre company Bloomshed when I ask about the process for making new work.

‘It’s a constant juggle to try and live up to our ideals about what a democratic process should be in a theatre collective,’ Brennan says. ‘It’s very exciting, if sometimes infuriating, to be locked in this kind of constant negotiation system.’

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Kate Mulqueen is an actor, writer, musician and theatre-maker based in Naarm (Melbourne). Instagram: @picklingspirits Facebook: @katemulq Twitter: @katemulqueen