Third-Way Theatre

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"We change the horizon we look out on by working together"

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“In the process of naming our world together ‘we’ learnt more about the value and values that have been imposed on us. By asking questions, questions that lead back to political and social analysis, we have come to understand how much of the reality that we take for granted is assumed as FIXED. In asking these questions, answers arise: not from experts but from the experience of our collective struggle.”
Third-Way Theatre invites the living community to use theatre as a tool to give voice to social struggles around hard-to-address issues such as bullying, gender violence, poverty, suicide, alienation, domestic violence, stigma, drug and alcohol addiction, racism, queer parenting, anorexia, obesity, homophobia, transphobia, mental health, and climate justice. Third-Way Theatre generates plays that are inter/active. Interactive theatre (FORUM Theatre) stems from the heart of Augusto Boal's, Theatre of The Oppressed

Third-Way Theatre has collaborated with schools, multicultural groups, neighbourhood houses, residential services, community health services, universities, church groups and activists to support opportunities for collective and social learning, investigating strategies and tactics towards change. 

This use of 'theatre as a laboratory,' provides an opportunity to critically reflect on the motivations and consequences of actions within a social and political context before acting out in the “real world.” It also assists in dismantling social silences ingested both personally and culturally, by unpacking the way in which the governing system we live in marginalises certain voices and reinforces the dominance of others. The analysis of this mechanism, and our participation in it is imperative in the work of restorative justice.