The term Empatheatre comes from our collaborative work in sculpting new social spaces that act as amphitheaters for empathy. 

A space for reflexive deep listening in society over a public concern, that contributes to participatory justice in decision making, meaning making and solidarity building across societal spheres.
Empatheatre is a research-based,  theatre-making methodology that emerged from friendship and solidarity between artists, academic researchers and responsive citizens. The process begins with extensive action-based research in which co-participants and key partners work to identify matters of concern and a pressing central question. 
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20 Sep, 2023
Empatheatre with support from the Bertha House, is excited to be hosting a screening and post-film discussion around Complicite’s film Can I Live? at the Bertha House cinema in Cape Town on the 12th of October from 16:00 - 19:30.
By Dylan McGarry 18 Sep, 2023
Empatheatre and Mbazwana Creative Arts (MCA)in association with Amehlo Productions are proud to present a short documentary film centring on the devising of their acclaimed musical theatrical production Umkhosi Wenala .
14 Sep, 2023
How do we make sense of the violent histories that mark our past? This play, Isidlamlilo, forces us to engage seriously with this question. Depending on your own relationship with our violent history, this play awakens a profound and at times unsettling realization that history is a living breathing force in all our lives. Isidlamlilo is set in the dying days of Apartheid, and in the present democratic South Africa.
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