The Commissariat doesn't make work for our friends. We make work that forces our friends to question whether they ever really knew us at all. We call for an end to the suspension of disbelief. If we can’t make you believe, the fault is ours. We think the ancients were onto something when they invented ritual. We channel its power to provoke laughter and tears while your superego huddles in the corner. We’ve come to steal shock and awe back from the kakistocracy and place them in the hands of the true legislators of the world: artists, workers, dilettantes and layabouts. Theatre is the spontaneous relationship between performer and spectator. It’s what happens when we lay down our arms and meet in the no man’s land of our common humanity. There, fortified by the encounter, we forge invisible armor for the battles that lie ahead.