Verbatim theatre
Manchester performance art theatre
Stories, bodies and histories made live.
Decolonial Dogs is a Manchester-based CIC making theatre, readings, workshops and community performance. The work is political without becoming cold, warm without becoming soft, and rooted in people telling their own stories.
26 Instagram postsPerformances, workshops, reading groups and local cultural work.
What they do
Theatre as a public conversation.
The company works across performing arts, artistic creation, cultural education and exhibition/fair activity. Recent public material points to verbatim theatre, South Asian feminist performance, Bharatanatyam workshops, decolonial reading groups and Manchester community arts.
Selected work
Programmes with a pulse.
Theatre and dialogue
Empty Chairs
A story of South Asian women confronting patriarchy, questioning the limits of Western feminism and making space for intimate mother-daughter truth telling.Performance
Siren Blues
A work about sirens, public space and the daily pressure felt by people who are watched, moved along or made to explain their presence.
Decolonial Readings
Longsight Street Theatre
Empty Chairs
Bharatanatyam WorkshopCommunity
Reading, movement and local gathering.
- Beginner-friendly decolonial reading groups
- Workshops in dance, theatre and storytelling
- Manchester and Longsight community arts activity
- Cultural education across postcolonial, feminist and performance practice
Registered CIC
DECOLONIAL DOGS CIC
Company number 16166934. Active, incorporated 6 January 2025.