Rosa is our main theatre facilitator, and she has performed and used theatre to work with young people, and as a training device, and problem-solving tool in 10 countries as well as the UK. She has worked with people at a range of levels of experience, from children in nursery schools, to primary and secondary school level, youth theatres, and other youth projects, colleges, Universities, and professional development for semi-professional and professional performers. She can teach a range of theatre styles, as well as address issues through drama, help groups to creation new performance pieces, and play the role of director.

The essence of theatre for us is the art of looking at and learning about ourselves through watching other people. Like Brazilian theatre practitioner, Augusto Boal, we believe it goes hand in hand with what it is to be human, and, like him, we think it is a very useful tool, for communicating, for self-expression, for problem-solving, and the empathy and sense of drawing people together that story-telling creates. Between 1993-96 Augusto Boal was a member of Rio de Janeiro City Council, and used Forum Theatre (in which audiences take part to try out their solutions to problems through theatre, as a rehearsal for life), to find out what people's problems were and how they thought they could be solved, and he managed to use this process to change a number of laws. Boal is no longer with us, but his work is still a big influence and inspiration to us, and we use many of his techniques when we work with young people and other groups.

We have developed a performance language which we call Urban Circus Theatre, in which Extreme Sports and Street and Circus Art skills are fused with theatre to tell stories. This is an exciting, fresh approach to theatre, which we find effectively engages people who might not normally be drawn to drama or theatre. We have used this approach when working with a Young Breakdance crew in South Africa, and a theatre company in South Africa, and in Malawi as part of the Swallows Partnership programme. International collaborations with artists and community-based projects in countries around the world are part of our objective to be an organisation which works on a very local and grassroots level, but which has a sense of global community.