TAKDAJA is an alternative, interdisciplinary theatre company based in the U.K. creating dynamic and visual productions that challenge traditional narratives. Their past work has been described by Cindy Marcolina of Broadway World U.K. as: “Brazen experimentalism leans into performance art and blurs the lines of form and style with a non-narrative approach. They challenge the status quo chest first, testing the limits and the very concept of a play to introduce ideas like naked existentialism, romantic disillusionment, unilateral desire, gender expectations, cultural demands, and the juxtaposition of perception and reality”.

They incorporate various techniques from individual training backgrounds such as psychophysical theatre (Eugenio Barba/Odin Teatret, Grotowski, Michael Chekhov, Suzuki, Viewpoints), clowning (Wright, DeCastro, Sobal, Hopkins), improv (Groundlings, Improv Olympics, UCB), and science.

Seeking new ways of communicating with the audience to further push boundaries between theatre and live art, TAKDAJA aims to create a theatre that’s not necessarily dependent on its story-line and which is accessible to those who may not always feel included by traditional approaches; a theatre with a pulsating core which embraces change and is not reliant on a specific theatrical space.