TYPE OF WORK
Accessible interactive theatre for personal and social change, empowerment and 'edu-tainment'

TARGET GROUPS
Homeless people, slum dwellers, prisoners and ex-prisoners, asylum seekers, women, children, survivors of abuse and torture, minority ethnic groups, people with mental health problems, people with disabilities.

GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
UK, North Africa and Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, South America, South Asia, Western and Southern Europe.

COMPANY POLICY
Freelance theatre practitioner (director, writer, performer, facilitator, researcher). Practice encompasses physical theatre, theatre of the oppressed/theatre for liberation, carnival and celebratory arts, street theatre, site-specific performance, new writing, devised work and singing. Mojisola Adebayo's work has included teaching theatre for social change to community workers in Cape Town (CAP), leading workshops with separated minors/asylum seekers in Dublin (Calypso Productions), devising and writing plays with homeless performers in London (Cardboard Citizens/London Bubble), and creating a cabaret with survivors of institutional abuse in Dublin (NOVA through the Abbey).

SCALE OF PROJECTS
Number of practitioners: 1
Number of participants: 20-700
Preparation time:  Varies
Contact time: 1 day - 5 years

Abu Shaker's Affairs (Palestinian Territories, 2000-01)
A two-week training programme on forum theatre with 10 participants from the Ashtar Theatre Company in Ramallah, on the West Bank. They created a show which addressed the oppression of women in Palestinian society and which toured Palestinian schools, community centres and refugee camps throughout the Middle East.

Over 10,300 people watched and participated in Abu Shaker's Affairs 2000, an astounding achievement considering the difficulties of travel and touring in the occupied territories during intifada. Company members were empowered to go on and run own training courses in forum theatre (which they currently do). Mojisola was invited to return to the Palestine Territories in 2001 to run training in other theatre of the Partners: British Council, Care International.

Contact Mojisola Adebayo for details.