ABSTRACT
The 2013–2014 exhibition Re-staging Revolutions—part of Susan Croft and Jessica Higgs’s project “Unfinished Histories”—about alternative theater practices in the boroughs on Camden and Lambeth, included a small portion of ephemera about the work of the InterAction group in Kentish Town. The exhibition covered the period of 1968–1988, which saw the formation of over 700 companies of street theater, community arts, political theater, gay, lesbian, black, Asian, disabled, and women’s companies, with evocative names such as Hesitate and Demonstrate, The Phantom Captain, Sadista Sisters, Recreation Ground, and several others. Part of this landscape was InterAction—an umbrella organization for a number of arts projects that went beyond a high artistic agenda and produced a framework for community engagement that can be considered ‘intangible heritage’ (Smith 2006) in the area.
