What's On

Live, Interactive Forum Theatre, exploring issues of Youth Mental Health - facilitating positive community dialogue for improved behaviours.

Forum Theatre is a unique type of participatory theatre. Short plays (often 10-20 minutes long) developed out of community workshops held prior, is performed once to a live audience, all the way through, so the audience can see the multi-layered situations of the problems presented.

The play builds to a crisis and stops there, offering no solutions. The play is then re-run, with audience members able to "freeze" the action at any point where they see a character struggling with a problem.

An audience member yells "stop!", comes into the playing area, replaces the character s/he recognizes is in a moment of struggle, and tries out their idea. We call this an 'intervention' - often coined as 'A rehearsal for real life'.

Support workers (often counsellors) are present for all performances, however this is not designed as therapy. We are facilitating a positive, proactive, community dialogue around ways we can all improve behaviours towards each other, and the emmerging generation for a more harmonious society.

The Forum Theatre event is vibrant and empowering for all concerned!