Back to Back Theatre is one of Australia’s leading contemporary theatre companies.
Based in the regional centre of Geelong, in its 23-year history, Back to Back has forged its own unique relationship to theatre, developing an original, distinctive artistic voice and a working process that supports its ensemble of actors with intellectual disabilities as its creative core.
Back to Back makes new work for the professional arena. We produce new work in Geelong over an extended timeframes and we tour this work in Australia and internationally.
We work with community members (predominantly with disabilities) in our local community and all over the world. We offer ongoing programs and we develop one-off workshops and residencies.
We seek to provide leadership to others in the disability arts field.
Back to Back seeks to leave traces of our work in the community, to respond actively to interest from academic and community researchers in the arts and disability sectors.
“small metal objects turns the notion of theatre and the everyday inside out. It is a pure, open-hearted, complex and breathtaking production and a unique meditation human worth.“ Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 07
”Its beauty lies in the way that it forces you to concentrate on the things and people who are normally rendered invisible. In their accidental participation in the show, the people in the crowds become distinct individuals…” Time Out London (Critic’s Pick), Nov 07
“That the two leads are people with intellectual disabilities only adds another layer to the perception, as we are asked to revisit what we think a so-called impaired human being is capable of" Irish Theatre Magazine, Dublin, Oct 07