Mission Statement

Over 30 Years of Connecting Cultures

No passports : Positioned between East and West, TARA champions creative diversity through the production, promotion and development of world class, cross-cultural theatre.

No passports
for the stories we tell

No passports
for the artists we work with

No passports
for our audiences

The company tours vibrant adaptations of European and Asian classics, brings the great stories of the world to children in junior schools and at TARA Studio, develops new writing, emerging artists, participatory arts and new audiences.

TARA's distinctive, 'Binglish' style of theatre, has resulted in co-productions with the National Theatre of Tartuffe (1990), The Little Clay Cart (1991) and Cyrano (1995) and now The Black Album (2009). The company has also staged an epic trilogy of plays on modern migration - Journey to the West (2002) and marked its 30th year in 2007 with its production of The Tempest.

Based in South London, TARA has toured the Netherlands, Ireland, France, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Australia, as well as England, Scotland and Wales.

"The most culturally open-minded troupe in Britain" Independent on Sunday