ABSTRACT
This short article explores The Resilience Web, a 2015 project designed and delivered by Doorstep Arts (Torbay, South Devon). Doorstep Arts is a partner in the Collaborative Touring Network, a touring partnership with Battersea Arts Centre. The economic framework holding such practice is undeniably skeletal and fragile, requiring invisible and often unpaid labour to ensure survival during its early stages in an area formally classed as ‘deprived’. Within this eight-month project, children and young people from Torbay created original devised theatre around themes of resilience, resistance, revelry and risk-taking. The emerging practice in the region is precarious, but necessary.
