WHAT IS GRAEAE THEATRE COMPANY?
Graeae is Britain’s foremost theatre company of people with physical and sensory impairments. Founded in 1980 by Nabil Shaban and Richard Tomlinson, Graeae has built up a reputation for producing high quality work and is now a respected theatrical voice with audiences, theatre workers, critics, the arts establishment and the disabled community.
Funded by the Arts Council of England, London Arts and the Association of London Government, Graeae tours nationally twice a year and sometimes internationally with imaginative and exciting productions of both classic and newly-commissioned theatre.
Graeae’s aim is to redress the exclusion of people with physical and sensory impairments from performance and is concerned with genuinely pioneering theatre in both its aesthetic and content. Our work extends beyond the normal remit of a producing theatre company, including a commitment to training, young peoples’ theatre, outreach and education. The Board of Management, staff, directors, actors and writers are drawn, mainly from a large, often unrecognised, constituency of arts practitioners with physical disabilities and sensory impairments.