The Wapping Project

The Wapping Project is a UK London-based arts organisation and a working name of Women's Playhouse Trust (WPT) since 2000. WPT is a registered charity (286384) established in 1981 and incorporated in 1982.[1] The project works as a commissioner and producer of art.[2]

History

Throughout the 1980s and the early 1990s, WPT worked predominantly at the Royal Court Theatre, London. The first WPT production was a revival of Aphra Behn's The Lucky Chance, performed at the Royal Court in 1984, starring Alan Rickman and Harriet Walter.[3] In 1993 WPT began to mount work in the derelict Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in the East End of London. WPT purchased the building from London Development Agency and invested £4 million in converting it into an arts centre. The conversion was designed and overseen by architectural practice Shed 54.[4] The new gallery space opened on the 10 October 2000.[5] WPT sold the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in 2013.[6]

WPT's founder and artistic Director, Jules Wright, who was diagnosed with cancer in February 2015 and died on 21 June 2015.[7]

WPT continues its artistic work under its working name The Wapping Project, headed by its former Deputy Director, Marta Michalowska, and a longstanding collaborator of Jules Wright, Thomas Zanon-Larcher.[citation needed]

Recent work by The Wapping Project

  • Andrea Luka Zimmerman's films Wayfaring Stranger (2024) and feature documentary Erase and Forget (2018) [8]
  • Shona Illingworth's installation Topologies of Air[9]
  • Mairéad McClean's installation Making Her Mark[10]

References

  1. ^ "Charity framework". apps.charitycommission.gov.uk.
  2. ^ "About".
  3. ^ Bristol, University of. "Women's Playhouse Trust Archive – Theatre Collection – University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk.
  4. ^ Original Press Release issued by WPT (The Wapping Project) in October 2000. Digital copy from archives. Accessed 5 November 2018.
  5. ^ "Pastscape – Detailed Result: Wapping Hydraulic Pumping Station". www.pastscape.org.uk.
  6. ^ Moore, Rowan (1 December 2013). "The Wapping Project: our obsession with house prices will turn our cities into cultural deserts" – via www.theguardian.com.
  7. ^ Coveney, Michael (26 June 2015). "Jules Wright obituary". The Guardian.
  8. ^ "Erase and Forget".
  9. ^ "Shona Illingworth".
  10. ^ "Making Her Mark – Mairéad McClean / the Wapping Project".


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