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Our focus is on enabling participants to discover and recover their own resources for self-healing. Attention is also given to exploring alternative ways of resolving conflicts, both personal and interpersonal. We envision a society where (self) recognition, (self) honouring and (self) celebration of women is commonplace.
We consciously create spaces for women located at the margins to speak their stories and share their experiences in order to gain power and credence within their communities. We work across the board with young women in schools, local communities and organisations that are already engaged in women’s development as well as with professional women artists from all disciplines. In this collaborative approach we complement others’ efforts within the development process.
Mothertongue is serviced by a pool of women who hold diverse qualifications in the performing, visual, literary and healing arts, expressive arts thearapies, arts management, arts education, community development and gender training. They bring with them a wealth of experience gathered over the years through engagement in their areas of expertise.
Mothertongue blurs the distinction between professional and applied theatre. We do this by creating all our productions anew around stories experienced by communities we work with. At the same time, Mothertongue provides a platform for professional and non-professional actors to share their stories in a theatrical context. This paves the way for consciously exploring the role the arts, and theatre in particular, play in challenging the marginalisation and silencing of women in society and culture. In so doing we explore theatre’s potential to facilitate conversations across differences.
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