As an organisation we focus wholeheartedly on bringing people together and concentrate on the unifying factor of our shared love for theatre and for the freedom of expression that we enjoy through theatre.

Most theatre people acknowledge similarities whilst celebrating difference. We celebrate that there is always more than one route to the same destination. That there are as many interpretations of a text as there are Directors ready to take that text and to bring it through to theatrical realisation. Each Director will have their own view of the message of the playwright, and their own vision in staging the playwright’s work. Through theatre we offer our views for consideration and to provoke dialogue and discussion, not as diktat or doctrine but as open communication. In the International Amateur Theatre Association, we mark World Theatre Day in the context of our maxim: Education and Understanding Through Theatre. The routes to that understanding are multi-layered, complex and diverse, and in this we remain proud.