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Strange
Roads is a not for profit workers' collective founded in 2003,
although between them the founder members have nearly 60 years experience
in professional and community theatre and film, and extensive experience
in management.
Strange Roads' ambition is to bring exciting and innovative theatre where it wouldn't normally go. It accepts the need to pay the bills, but also accepts the need to get out in front of new audiences, taking risks with new and unfamiliar venues.
Strange Roads accepts the need to pay actors, to develop
employment and employment skills, but strives in every way to keep ticket
prices as low as possible, making its shows available to as wide an
audience as possible.
Strange Roads is committed to bringing the best new writing to the widest audience in the most professional way it can.Strange Roads is committed to bringing the best possible theatre to the widest possible audience.
Strange Roads' mission is:
- to develop theatre on Merseyside and in its surrounds
- to encourage participation in culture, specifically theatre, at all levels, especially amongst excluded groups
- to develop the skills and opportunities of those wishing to find work in the creative and cultural industries.
- producing the very best shows it can
- taking them to as wide an audience as it can
- seeking out and signposting training and employment opportunities in the creative and cultural industries
- a committment to excellence and professionalism
- being as useful as it can to other groups and individuals with compatible aims.