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Listed below are the 2003 ACD Directory entries for drama. Click an entry heading to view more detailed information about each organisation. Each detailed entry contains company information, case studies, details of future projects, contact details and quotes from project participants and observers.

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Acting Out Company

Theatre and drama for development.

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Mojisola Adebayo

Accessible interactive theatre for personal and social change, empowerment and 'edu-tainment'.

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Ali Campbell

Participatory, applied, community and educational theatre.

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Cardboard Citizens

The company uses theatre, especially forum theatre/theatre of the oppressed and legislative theatre, as a medium for debate, development, and change, on a personal institutional and/or social level.

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Contact

Theatre and cross-artform performance

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David Glass Ensemble

Participatory theatre, film-making, publishing, radio, IT.

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Geese Theatre Company

Theatre, drama and active groupwork methods.

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Graeae Theatre Company

Performance by and training for disabled actors, forum theatre and education work.

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Honeybee Theatre

Participatory visual theatre workshops and performance using gesture, mime, movement, facial expression, body language, dance and minimal use of sign language or spoken language.

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Immediate Theatre

Participatory theatre workshops and professional performance packages for training and awareness raising.

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The Lawnmowers

Theatre and drama for social change

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London Shakespeare Workout

Theatre in education, theatre for development, interactive theatrical workshops enhancing literacy; digital video training (shooting and editing) for development; theatrical production.

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MAYHEM

Educational drama and theatre.

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Julie McCarthy

Practice, research and consultancy in theatre and social development and the use of the arts in participatory monitoring and evaluation.  Theatre and development, participatory theatre, adaptations of participatory rural appraisal, forum theatre.

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mind the...gap

Highly visual performance work incorporating verbal and non-verbal theatre making techniques, including forum and image theatre.

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Gerri Moriarty

Community artist, specialising in drama (games, improvisation, storytelling, forum theatre, performances).

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People's Palace Projects

Performance and development, with special emphasis on participatory workshops

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Jane Plastow

Performance for rights, development, conflict resolution, young people and women.

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Pop-Up Theatre

Drama programmes to build self-esteem and encourage peer support for both pupils and teachers within a school environment.

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Project Phakama

Site-specific theatre, theatre for development, participatory devised theatre/cross-arts/installation.

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Rideout

Cognitive, behavioural and creative participatory drama based on programmes with those in custody.

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Small World Theatre

Participatory drama, puppetry, mask, mime, street theatre/carnival, visual and digital arts.

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Streets Alive Theatre Company

Theatre for development.

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Theatr Fforwm Cymru

Forum theatre for personal and community development, intercultural development, creative democracy and active citizenship.

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Theatre Workshop

Devised drama and forum theatre employing disabled and non-disabled professional actors.

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James Thompson

Participatory theatre projects in war and conflict settings.  Theatre programmes with socially excluded young people and in various institutional and education settings, including schools, museums, heritage sites and prisons.

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Chrissie Tiller

Theatre - particularly participatory and process based work; theatre in education, drama in education, forum theatre.

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TiPP (Theatre in prisons and Probation Centres)

Theatre for personal change.

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Wolf + Water Arts Company

Positive reflection and change on both the personal and social levels through drama and the arts.

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