In this photo:  Women and the Money Go Round  Anne-marie, Lisa, Guena, Brooke, Kerry.

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK:

“Not being pushed, but choosing to fall, being allowed to fall, is the hardest thing, and having people there to witness your choice, knowing that they won’t rescue you, NOR will they judge you. They will simply witness you, see you, and be with you. That is profound.” (Workshop Participant, 2005)

“This process relies on us working co-operatively. It is collaborative work. We learned how to name and analyse social struggles together, how to give each other space, improvise with the audience and make discoveries. These discoveries interestingly, are about our own AND others' assumptions/prejudices – it’s a two way learning." (Workshop Participant, 2006)

“These are the kinds of moments we owe to each others' ‘unknown’ journeys." (Workshop Participant 2007).

“This is not a process to be picked up, purchased, consumed, spat out and applied without thought. It is a process that requires engagement, requires asking hard questions, a consideration of the multi-faceted nature of the work. It requires tact, a sophistication of thought, of heart, of will that comes from the depths, from mulling over the invitation; mulling over, digesting, birthing, in order to give honour to truths too often silenced.” (Workshop participant, 2005)

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK:

“As groups of individuals, through a theatrical process, we struggled together to find ‘new’ ways to think about and respond to the social and political questions of our time… there is a gift in that struggle. It changes the horizon we were previously looking out on.” (Audience feedback, 2007)