Help us debut About Money by Eliza Gearty - a Scottish story about kinship care and poor working conditions - to Theatre503
We are 65% Theatre, an international female led theatre company based in London. In the UK, 65% of theatre audiences are female but women make up only 39% of casts, 28% of playwrights, and 36% of directors. We want to change this.
We have been given an incredible opportunity to debut About Money by Eliza Gearty - a Scottish story about kinship care and precarious working conditions - at Theatre503 in September of this year. An opportunity just like this one has rocket launched many theatre makers' careers, including some of the writers behind popular TV shows such as Normal People, The Crown, Succession, Killing Eve and Doctor Who.
By donating to our crowd funder you will be; supporting the next generation of theatre makers, amplifying a young female playwright, and employing seventeen emerging creatives. For many of us, this will be our first professional credit on a London stage.
Where the money is going:
£4000 on 5 actors wages.
£6000 on 10 members of the creative team, including the photographer
£200 on insurance and set and props
About Money
“Weans. They get expensive, you know? When a’ve paid for her child-care, when I’m working evenings, and rent, and all that, sometimes canny even afford to get the bus tae work.”
Shaun is your average eighteen year old teenage boy. He likes music, video games and getting stoned. He’s also the sole carer to his eight year old sister, Sophie. But without enough money for child-care, and under pressure from a unsympathetic boss, he’s forced to make decisions that could have devastating consequences.
Currently, 63,000 in Scotland are on zero hour contracts, struggling to get by on poverty wages.
About Money is an important story to tell right now about young carers and the dangerous impact of precarious working conditions – on workers, and on the families they support.
Thank you so much for your support.
Love,
65% Theatre
This project successfully funded on 28th August 2021