Spotlight neglected human rights issues

Create work that provides a platform for current controversial issues and provokes social debate

Create work that endures, to be published and performed again and again

Explore other cultures, especially non-European

Exploit the talent of hugely experienced but under-employed older theatre practitioners

Tackle the experimental and unknown

Be adventurous with text and form

Move between mainstream high-profile theatre and mixed media performance (video, dance, music, visual art) in unconventional spaces

Challenge stereotyping

Challenge prejudice

Tackle issues traditionally considered of special interest to women

Tackle issues previously considered of no interest to women

Take theatre back into the community

Make invisible people visible

Change things for the better