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COMPLEX comes to the Anatomy Theatre & Museum: only 135 tickets available!
"Not them. Me. Tell me ." Ilo thinks she's about to save lives. Oli thinks they're about to be saved. Two letters arrive on the same day,...
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Checklist for designing a theatre project with an activism element: RAT LAB session #1 reflections
"In this room, there is an unspoken getting-it-ness." What a pertinent statement on which to build the very start of our professional...
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RAT LAB intro session #1 THIS SUNDAY!
It can feel almost impossible to get artistic projects off the ground in this climate: from funding, to programming, to audience...
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Five more years! RAT achieves multi-year funding to keep two regular programmes running
Almost exactly a year after the first anniversary of RAT’s first ever core group session, we are squealing with excitement to share that...
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Wash My Mind, Heal My Heart: short play and documentary now live
What would make your life that little bit better right now? How about in a few months’ time? How about in a few years’ time? These are...
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Spending Review: our analysis, with a lot of help from our friends
Earlier this month, the Chancellor set out spending plans for this government in the Spending Review. While we wish it wasn’t the case,...
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How To Co-Create Theatre... according to us! Featuring COMPLEX (working title): our latest project
At RAT, it’s really important for us to focus on what we can do, rather than what we can't do. As survivors, so much of our lives can be...
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Wrapping up the financial year with a short film series and a theory of change
We can't believe how quickly the end of our first full year as a charity has come about! It's been full of surprises, positive...
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A new short film and a new collaboration: celebrate both with us next week!
February has been a whirlwind! We have plenty of things to show you soon, but this post will focus on an announcement of a project that...
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A few things to look forward to in 2025
Katie (Chair) and Nell (Founder) celebrating good news! What have we got to be so happy about, eh? Is it the fact that everything’s...
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Spiritual Abuse in our Headlines: Why We Should All Care
It has taken us some time to decide what we want to say in response to the Makin Report and subsequent resignation of the Archbishop of...
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'Milestones' now available to watch on our website!
A year ago today, RAT returned to the Bloomsbury Theatre Studio to present Milestones : a semi-verbatim play reflecting the experiences...
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Our vision, mission and values: why we're here
Another core group session has passed and our community is growing: returning folk, folk we haven't seen for a while, folk we've never...
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Core Group First Session: setting the scene and introducing the RAT working principles
We were absolutely thrilled with our first core group session. We wanted to bring together survivors from several previous projects and...
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Four Common Misconceptions About Working With People Experiencing Trauma Or Post-Traumatic Stress
As we prepare for the first RAT core group session this Sunday (we're so excited!), we've been thinking a lot about the habits,...
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Launching RATS!: our first post-traumatic community core group
Nightmares. Flashbacks. Periods of dissociation. Struggles staying in the here and now. Responses to words, smells, sounds, textures,...
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A (but by no means 'the') trauma-conscious response to the new government's manifesto
So - the nation has very decisively spoken. Whether most people were voting out of conviction, or fear of the alternatives, Labour has an...
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Meet Our Trustees!
It's been just over two months since our registration as a charity came through and we've been having a grand old administrative time...
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Theatre leads to tangible change - and we can PROVE it!
With just over 24 hours left in which to stream I, Lord from our performance at the Space last month, let's have a look at what our...
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Right in time for show week: RAT becomes a charity!
We couldn't be prouder to tell you, at the beginning of our show week for I, Lord at The Space, that RAT is now a registered charity,...
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