Stage Left Productions

We practice a highly specialized, socio-political performing arts model made up of Popular Theater and Theatre of the Oppressed, coupled with interdisciplinary Performance Creation, to genuinely affect personal and social transformation, and to foster social justice, with marginalized communities. We are a grass-roots arts-based community developme... nt and social action company, taking seriously our service to the communities who work with us to overcome social injustice. Stage Left works extensively with marginalized artists and community members, such as people with physical, sensory, learning, and/or developmental disability, brain injury, chronic illness, and/or mental illness; lesbigay youth; street-involved youth; politically motivated youth; culturally diverse youth; Ethno-cultural communities; First Nations; and other marginalized communities and their allies. We strive to engage marginalized artists and people in an arts-based process designed to explore personal and social concerns and to imagine, actualize, and practice - or rehearse , solutions to them. Stage Left has developed a highly specialized, interdisciplinary performance practice through which marginalized people can gain access to the professional performing arts. Our model is a combination of Popular Theater and Theatre of the Oppressed genres with interdisciplinary Performance Creation techniques. The Stage Left model is highly centered around the participants - we do not use actors to tell a community about its own experiences; instead, we engage the community itself in a creative, dynamic, and radical process of discovering, representing, and transforming its own experiences.Read More