FuelFest: Joint

A work in progress

“I didn’t know that by sitting in the kitchen I’d be hunted down, arrested, convicted, on the same charges as him. And you’d be too.”

Joint Enterprise is a controversial common law doctrine where an individual can be jointly convicted of the crime of another, if it can be proven that they foresaw the crime taking place. 

Increasingly challenged, it is part of a history of collective punishment that systematically targets racialised and working class people, that can be traced from colonialism through to today. But how does it work? And how can it be defeated?

Written by one of Britain’s most exciting poets, Jay Bernard (Ted Hughes Award, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year) and directed by Jo Tyabji (Bleak House, Audible), Joint presents a powerful, multi-media account of Joint Enterprise that weaves together personal experience, social history and real life cases. 

Commissioned and produced by Fuel, and funded by Arts Council England.

Dates: 17th – 19th March 2025
Times: 7:45pm
Prices: Pay What You Can

Tickets will be available to buy from the Barbican website from 20 November 2024 at 1pm

For details about FuelFest and the other works in progress, visit FuelFest at the Barbican