In the Community

Mama Quilla works in the community with the vulnerable and the dispossessed, creating innovative street and site-specific performance theatre — celebrating their voices and exploring their experience.

Crossroads Women's Centre

Mama Quilla has a long creative relationship with the Crossroads Women's Centre, home to a number of organisations including Women Against Rape (WAR), Legal Action for Women (LAW), and the All African Women's Group.

In partnership we explore issues in workshops — Buried Pasts, Put Yourself in Our Shoes, The Wookarooka — often creating miniature performances out of the conversations and writing that emerge.

Awareness raising

The company creates awareness-raising events that bring urgent contemporary issues into theatrical form.

• A Night Out of the Asylum, Tricycle Theatre, June 2007 — highlighting the plight of women and children in UK detention.

Platform events

Days of debate and performance, gathering writers, artists, activists and audiences around a single subject:

• We Women Speak the Words of Ordinary Libyans, Broadway Theatre, Barking.
• Theatre of Protest, The Roundhouse, London.
• Should Prostitution be Decriminalised?, for the Working Girls Project at the Crossroads Women's Centre.

Mama Quilla has built its reputation tackling issues deemed thorny. In so doing, it has become an invaluable resource providing a voice for those who are rarely heard.

— Cari Mitchell, Crossroads Women's Centre