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This anthology is testimony, resistance, a nationwide act of creative truth-telling. This is More Than One Story.
For over thirty years, Cardboard Citizens has harnessed the power of theatre and storytelling to change the narrative of homelessness and poverty for individuals and society. More Than One Story is the company’s first-ever anthology: a groundbreaking collection of new writing by thirty-seven emerging and established writers from across the UK with lived experience of homelessness, poverty, and inequity.
From sofa-surfing and street-sleeping to the rental industry, citizenship, identity, and mental health, these monologues shift between imagined futures and urgent realities, encompassing resilience, hope, rage and humour, to offer a multifaceted portrait of homelessness and poverty in the UK today.
More Than One Story features original pieces from Sonali Bhattacharyya, Malorie Blackman, Chris Bush, Kayleigh Llewellyn, Michelle De Swarte, Inua Ellams, Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, Debbie Hannan, Charlie Josephine, Errol McGlashan, Neetu Singh, Chris Sonnex, Joelle Taylor, Naomi Westerman, Roy Williams, alongside twenty-two new works from a national open call–and a foreword by BAFTA Award-winning actor Michael Sheen.
“This book is unlike anything else–it brings together voices and experiences of homelessness and poverty that are too often ignored, but that carry incredible power, honesty, and humanity.”
–Rory Kinnear, 2x Olivier Award–winning actor
“More Than One Story is more than a vital piece of literature–it is potentially world-changing…A raw and rousing treatise in humanity and resilience.”
–West End Best Friend
“Intelligent windows into a reality we’re trained to look away from…an urgent call to action.”
–Broadway World
“Resilience, anger, hope, pain and sprinkles of humour throughout…More Than One Story is an enlightening read for anyone who does not share these experiences, and it reinforces why more should be done to make art accessible for all.”
–Theatre and Tonic
Cardboard Citizens is a theatre company and charity that creates work with and for people who have experienced homelessness, inequity, or poverty.
Michael Sheen is a Welsh actor of stage and screen. After nearly a decade performing on London stages, Sheen broke through in the US in the 1999 Broadway redux of Amadeus. His television and film credits include Showtime's Masters of Sex, Amazon Prime's Good Omens, Frost/Nixon, Midnight in Paris, and the Twilight films, among many others. He is also a political activist, with a focus on homelessness and the housing crisis.