a) To promote better physical and mental health among HIV/AIDS and drug/alcohol service users through the creative medium of theatre.
b) To work specifically with people suffering from HIV and AIDS and people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction in order to produce high quality, socially relevant theatre.
c) To make the general public more aware of the problems people with HIV/AIDS and drug/alcohol problems face.
d) To counter negative stereotypes of these people which appear in the media.
e) To offer users of these services the chance of involvement in theatre work in order to help their recovery and personal development.
f) To allow users of these services to develop the skills to produce and perform high quality theatre.
How We Will Achieve Our Objectives
We will work with experienced theatre practitioners and users of HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol services. We will enable service users to use their experiences and involve them directly in creating high quality theatre.
Equal Opportunities Policy
Chrysalis Theatre recognises that prejudice on such grounds as race, gender, disability, age or sexual orientation is a major cause of injustice. As a group whose members suffer themselves from continuing prejudice, we are determined to combat these and all other forms of discrimination in the way we run our own group and in our dealings with all individuals and organisations.