Company name: Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company
Established: 1975
Founders: Drew Griffiths and Gerald Chapman
Reason: To make heterosexuals aware of the oppression they exercise or tolerate, and expose and end media misrepresentations of homosexuals
Current Status: Disbanded 1997
Area of Work: Gay and lesbian theatre, new writing
Policy: To produce liberating material and increase general awareness of the oppression of sexuality, both gay and straight
Structure: Co-operative
Based:
Funding: Arts Council
Performance Venues: Theatres, Arts Centres, national and international tours
Audiences: General (playing predominantly to homosexual audiences)
For further information look at Kate Crutchley, Noel Greig, Bryony Lavery and Julie Parker
Gay Sweatshop's archive is in Special Collections at Royal Holloway, University of London, search 'Gay Sweatshop'
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