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Romancing the Change. Theatre. Power. Transformation.

We keep saying it. Theatre changes lives. But when practitioners claim “transformation,” what do they actually mean, and what evidence backs it up. This short film challenges the grand impact claims often made in applied theatre, social theatre, and Theatre of the Oppressed, and asks a sharper question: when does hope become a claim. This isn’t an argument that theatre is meaningless. It’s an argument for honesty, rigour, and power-awareness. A powerful workshop moment is not the same as durable change in someone’s life. Applause isn’t evidence. “Voice” isn’t power. And if we can’t corroborate outcomes beyond the room, we should downgrade the claim. The film explores how impact language is shaped by funding cultures, how “transformation” can become a performance, and what real change might look like when young people’s rights and power are taken seriously. It draws on ideas from applied theatre scholarship, evaluation critiques, and children’s rights thinking, including work associated with Michael Balfour, Judith Ackroyd, Mary John, Priscilla Alderson, and research on arts impact claims. If you work in schools, youth arts, community theatre, education, social justice, or evaluation, this film is an invitation to debate. What counts as evidence of change, in your view. What claims do you think the sector can legitimately make. And what needs to shift for “transformation” to be more than a story we tell ourselves. Actionwork: actionwork.com