Milk Crate Theatre

Milk Crate Theatre is both a theatre company and a community, consisting of creative individuals who come together to make entertaining, challenging and inspiring performances, whilst exploring issues, opinions and life experiences in the process. They are a direct partnership between actors, artists, welfare services and community participants, exploring the tension between inclusive theatre arts practice and community development.

Milk Crate Theatre works in the inner city, metropolitan and western suburbs of Sydney, accessing the community through partnerships with a network of welfare services including Mission Australia, Wesley Mission, The Salvation Army, HopeStreet, St Vincent's De Paul and independent services such as Parramatta Mission, Rough Edges and The Wayside Chapel.

Milk Crate Theatre is the homeless and marginalised person's theatre company, direct from the streets, committed to creating original theatrical works that give a voice and a vision from those often lost and abandoned by the society they inhabit.

Milk Crate Theatre is dedicated to the arduous creative development, production and promotion of contemporary theatre that examines issues of homelessness and marginalisation, exploring the impact not solely on the individual, but also on what these stories expose within the culture and sensibility of our Australian society itself. Milk Crate creates theatre that creates change.

Using theatre to make a difference, Milk Crate Theatre works from a theatre model rather than a therapy model, although there are strong therapeutic outcomes that result from Milk Crate's work.

Milk Crate Theatre's programs aim to:

  • Nurture creativity as a way to connect, question, inspire and empower; -teach life skills in expression, teamwork and communication; 
  • Facilitate education, training, volunteering or employment opportunities and peer to peer learning; 
  • Express voices in the community that aren't often heard; -improve and foster societal understanding and involvement with the complex issues involved with homelessness and marginalisation; and -create high quality, inventive and interactive theatre productions.

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