Welcome to the website of Iwan Brioc, practitioner and consultant in Applied Theatre. Iwan is the Artistic Director of the Sensory Labyrinth Theatre company Theatr Cynefin and the Context Oriented Theatre and Film production company The Republic of the Imagination.

The aim of his work with applied theatre can be summed up by Aldous Huxley's quote from The Doors of Perception -

"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large, this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone."

While Huxley here was perhaps referring to the use of the drug mescalin, Iwan's vision is a theatre within which moments of trans-personal insight can arise.  He calls this Context Oriented Theatre and it is this approach which frames all his activities in theatre.

The tools which he uses to this end are training, workshops and projects that he has been co-creating with communities across Europe in the last ten years.