Icon is an award-winning Medway-based theatre and participatory arts charity. We push the boundaries of where theatre happens, who it is for and how it can help people and places to grow. Communities and individuals collaborating as equal partners with professional artists is at the heart of everything we do, be that making large-scale immersive productions; running Theatre31, one of five Arts Cou
ncil-funded Youth Performance Partnerships; or our ongoing participatory theatre projects in schools, drop-in centres, and criminal justice settings. Recent large-scale community productions include: The Ballad of St John’s Car Park (St George Hotel, 2022), If Not Now (Rochester Castle, 2022), The Chatham Witch (Fort Amherst, 2019), The Silk of 1000 Spiders (Fort Luton, 2018) and 23 Submarines (Chatham Riverside, 2016). Icon's award-winning young people programme, Theatre31, is one of the UK’s five youth performance partnership projects. Inspired by the idea that cultural and artistic activities are the right of every young person, the three-year performing arts programme engaged over 5,000 young people in cultural activity across Medway and Sheppey (2019 – 2022). Icon Theatre is led by founder and artistic director, Nancy Hirst, and in 2022 Icon celebrate their twentieth anniversary. Learn more about Icon Theatre, including how to take part in our projects and productions, by visiting our website.
