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Come and see

Exploring the Stage Within

Mental health concerns everyone. Stigma is what keeps it private. This year, across seven countries, we are opening the rehearsal room door, and you are invited in.

Find a performance near you See what’s on

Take your seat.

Come watch, take part, talk back, take the stage

You can do as much or as little of that as you like. Some people come for a show and go home. Some stay for the conversation afterwards. Some come back in the spring and end up on stage. All of those are the right amount.

Why a theatre?

Because reducing stigma is what happens when audiences and performers share the same room. Not a room where anyone is on display. A room where everyone bought a ticket, sat down together, and watched the same thing happen.

Theatre gives back three things mental illness can take away: a voice, a body, an audience. When someone stands on a stage and is listened to for ninety minutes, something shifts for them. Something shifts for the people watching, too.

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Placeholder image. Stock photograph, to be replaced with partner photography and a real credit before launch.

Four ways to take part

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See a performance

Productions made with people who have lived experience of mental health difficulty, touring venues across Europe through 2027. These are real shows with real production values. Come for the theatre.

Take your seat
A company rehearsing in a bare room

Sit in on an open rehearsal

Free, informal, and honest about the mess of making something. Turn up, watch a company work, leave whenever you need to. No booking, no questions.

Find an open rehearsal
Audience members talking after a show

Stay for the conversation

Every campaign performance is followed by a twenty-minute conversation with the company. You can ask anything. You can also just listen — most people do.

See dates near you
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Join a workshop

Six-week workshops for anyone over sixteen, in each partner city. No acting experience needed. No one will ask you about your mental health, and no one will ask you to perform if you would rather not.

Join a workshop

What’s on near you

Performances, open rehearsals and workshops across seven countries. Filter by city or by date.

Sample listings. Real dates, venues and productions are published from the events calendar.

If any of this is close to home

Theatrum Animi is a cultural project, not a support service. If you need to talk to someone today, these are the services in each partner country. They are independent of us.

Placeholder content. Each partner confirms the correct national service for their country before launch. Nothing below is a real referral yet.

  • ItalyService to be confirmed by ATER Fondazione and Arte e Salute
  • IrelandService to be confirmed by First Fortnight
  • SpainService to be confirmed by ALTRE L’altro Festival
  • FinlandService to be confirmed by Taitoon Sulattamo
  • SerbiaService to be confirmed by Plavo Pozoriste
  • SwedenService to be confirmed by Dejviska Produktion
  • Czech RepublicService to be confirmed by Nedomysleno

If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number. In the EU that is 112.