ABSTRACT
Breakout Theatre-in-Education (TIE) was founded in 1984, and since 1989 has been the resident TIE company for the Royal County of Berkshire, receiving state funding from the Arts Council of Great Britain, Southern Arts (the Regional Arts Association for this part of England), and the Education Department of Berkshire. I begin the story of our forum project with the apparent banalities of funding because the survival of the company in general (and the success of the forum project in particular) reflect the economic self-empowerment and tenacity of an under-represented group of artists and teachers taking heart and strength from the principles of Theatre of the Oppressed. But first let me provide some background on TIE.
