The Ritual Theatre creates original, site-specific, transformational theatre for diverse inter-generational audiences. Our performances offer space for the emergence of authentic community, and seek to restore our much-needed connection with ritual and with place. Through site specific plays, installation-performances and other multidisciplinary work, we hope to nurture the inspired potential within each of us, and to deeply celebrate the cycles of love, loss and renewal that make us human.
We believe that the ritual function of theatre is a necessary part of creating healthy, wise, and just communities. And that hidden beneath our collective forgetting, we each have a desire to feel more deeply connected through ritual spaces. We still long for a village culture.
Thus we cultivate experimental containers in which the liminal might be tempted to happen- inviting re-enchantment, reconnection and re-membering through technologies of theatre, storytelling and dance - as human beings have done for millennia. Ultimately the alchemy takes place in the permeable space between us - as both performers and audience meet in the emergent space of the Unknown.
Our roots and deepest inspiration in performance draw from Founder, Pooja' Prema's native Kerala, India where dozens of ancient ritual drama and dance traditions continue to enliven and sustain local communities despite the overwhelming pace of the globalized, digital world. Ritual theatre is a healing practice. It is transformation. It is education... a path to remaking society in our true likeness.
