Doll’s Eye: A Theatre Company and Charitable Trust.
Our Beginning
Doll’s Eye Theatre was founded in 2015 by Artistic Director, Amy Ewbank. Having worked as an actor and director in theatre in London and across the UK, Amy had grown tired of comfortable stories about who and what we are, determined by our sex. Doll’s Eye Theatre was founded to devise stories to amplify the voices of women and girls and to show an alternative story for men and boys, challenging what it means to “be a man”. We are a new writing theatre company who weave narratives which challenge the expected norms of where we each “sit” in the lives of the characters we create.
Courage
From the books we read to our children, the tales transmitted into our homes, the box sets and podcasts and comedy we consume, we are always learning about ourselves. Storytelling is the foundation of what it means to be human, and teaches us about the possibilities of who we may be and how we are expected to interact with the world.
Doll’s Eye invite theatre audiences to lean in, to listen, to be vulnerable enough to step out of the safety of the stories we have learnt, those we all grew up with, into something new and other. We are fearless in creating theatre which asks the difficult questions, which rejects black and white and embraces wonderful, complex messy mottled grey.
Please, join us. It is time.
