Driven by the shared artistic vision of artist-producer Julia Negus and writer-director Chris O’Connell, we collaborate across disciplines to explore how we can make narrative.

By working with writers, dancers, poets, visual artists and more, we strive to make relevant and experimental work for performance.

We have been creating professional work for over 25 years. Formed in 1992, our early work was written and led by Chris, whose plays included the Time Out Live and double Edinburgh Fringe First winning Street Trilogy (Car, Raw, Kid).

In 2009 we founded the UK’s first professional Shop Front Theatre in Coventry’s city centre. It is from this unique base that Theatre Absolute has been on an incredible journey that’s allowed us to reflect and act upon our role as artists and theatre-makers within our community.

Artists, participants and audiences are considered active citizens, not consumers.