The Theatre of Others believes the play watches the audience.
The audience is necessary and they are witness to what happens.
We produce plays that both welcome and challenge the audience.
Recent Productions
Bright Light Burning (Baku)
Steven Gaultney’s Bright Light Burning is a theatrical journey combining artistry, storytelling, and environmental activism. Our interdisciplinary production aims to shift perspectives, evoke empathy, and galvanize audiences to take meaningful steps toward a sustainable future.
Set in the year 2099, the audience gathers in a theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan, which has been repurposed as a holding center for migrants. The narrative focuses on characters who must deal with the realities of climate-induced migration, and the audience is cast as migrants alongside them.
Blurring the line between performer and observer, the play is a powerful statement on the social and emotional toll of climate displacement. It emphasizes the urgent need for empathy and collective action in the face of global crises.
November 15
Extreme Hangout, Green Zone
COP29 Baku Stadium
November 19
Art Pavilion, Green Zone
COP29 Baku Stadium
Audio Play Festival 2024
The Theatre of Others’ fourth annual Audio Play Festival, will be produced for the entire month of October 2024. This year’s prompt is "SOUNDS OF HOME with plays that explore this theme in ways that utilize the unique potentials of the audio play format. What does home mean to you and what does home sound like? What are the rhythms and cadences of speech? What does traffic sound like? What about nature? What do you hear when someone cooks a meal? Plays will be released weekly via The Theatre of Others Podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, and all your favorite podcast platforms.
We are committed to international collaboration and are a laboratory that helps artists grow through intensive study of their craft.
Upcoming events.
Join us each month for a diverse range of events designed to engage, inspire, and connect our community. Our events are held both in-person and online, ensuring accessibility and convenience for everyone. Open to all, these events offer something for everyone, from workshops and performances to discussions and social gatherings. Mark your calendar for these recurring opportunities to learn, create, and share.
The Theatre of Others creates a shared community of artists and audiences for the purpose of exploring the most profound issues of our lives and times.
Podcast
We believe that space is psychology and informs the ways in which an audience interacts and reacts to what is presented for them. We create uniquely theatrical events in bespoke sensory performance spaces crafted to encourage curiosity and grant the audience permission to commune with the play.
Past Productions
Bright Light Burning (Dubai)
Presented at the UK Pavilion
Blue Zone, COP28 Dubai
The Earth Turns is an international climate-inspired audio play for the UN COP27 Climate Conference. Adapted from We Still Have a Chance- 12 Stories for 12 Days of COP27, an anthology of micro-stories created with the express purpose of humanizing this global problem.
A man all alone at the end of the world finds a bundle in the road, motionless, silent. Is it a baby? Is it a bomb? The answer leads him on a journey in which he demands the cost of indifference be admitted and asks what it means to be human.
Denmark’s a prison. Privacy is hard to find and intimate moments are often observed. For the Prince of Denmark it’s also a tomb. You’re invited to enter. Come in.
In February 2026, due to COVID-25, The Theatre of Others postponed its adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae, Reimagining the production for a digital space, the result is this intimate version of the ancient, still-devastating story,
Telling the story of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), La Belle Epoque charts the history of discovery and exploitation of resources in the DRC such as slaves, rubber, diamonds, and rare earth minerals from pre-colonial times to the modern day, exposing the supply chain and the people who are beneficiaries of these resources - the Wealthy West.