Somebody's Daughter Theatre Company
Highwater Theatre performance, Catch a Star...Falling, Melbourne, Victoria, 2006. Photo: Richard Jones
Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company is a community arts organisation that works with women in prison and after their release, disadvantaged youth and with communities interested in establishing creative partnerships.
For more than 20 years, the organisation has developed arts-led programs to enhance the health and wellbeing of these marginalised groups.
A major focus of the company’s work is the intergenerational cycles of poverty, abuse and disadvantage, which lead to addictions, self-destructive behaviour, criminal behaviour and thus institutionalisation.
It has established itself as one of the truly contemporary voices in Australian theatre, and is renowned for speaking loudly about some confronting issues – including drugs, separation, addictions, crime, sexuality, the care of children – with clarity, passion and wit. Somebody's Daughter productions are presented inside prisons, in schools, local communities and maintream theatres and have the ability to inform, challenge assumptions, and even change lives through the powerful reality of their work.