Canada's Newest Independent Diverse Theatre Company
<p>Metachroma Theatre provides opportunities to visible minority actors in productions that once upon a time would have been denied to them, or where race and culture becomes an artistic interpretation intending to affect or heighten the story. These choices perpetuate the belief that a person of a different race or culture on stage is to be seen differently in plays where race and culture are not the focal points; themes are the focal points of the story. <br /><br />Metachroma Theatre, however, endeavors to focus on the storytelling of a play, where plot and theme(s) are unaffected by the phenotype of the artists. We hope that this saturation of colour will, in essence, invite the audience to witness theatre without superficially rendering any biases and to make diversity of skin colour artistically viewed no differently than the diversity of hair or eye colour. This includes eliminating tokenism and the need to alter the play reflecting a culturally specific environment to match the racial uniformity on stage. </p>