Mission:
TDP wants drama, theatre, and creative activities to be a regular part of the lives of young people in Palestine, so that they can find their individual voice, their sense of self, and discover their creative life; in stimulating these activities TDP aims to provide the foundation for a peaceful development of Palestine, one with respect for human rights and civil society. TDP tries to realize this by working with the formal education systems and local organizations working with and for children and young people.
Overall objective:
TDP aims to promote the use of drama and youth theatre as a tool for creative expression in order to develop human resources and participate in community development. Its specific objectives are (a) to utilize formal and informal educational settings to promote theatre and drama in under-served areas of Palestine and (b) to build community human and physical capacities to support youth theatre.
1. Reaching out to children: by performing new relevant theatre plays, executing workshops in free expression, and producing and performing new plays with young people acting.
2. Building institutional capacity: by (a) enhancing TDP's 3 year curriculum of play production, lectures, workshops, and apprenticing, and (b) advanced training of regional teams and graduates in Hebron and Gaza.
3. Providing adequate facilities for drama: by renovating/ furnishing two theatre studios in the Hebron and Gaza region.
4. Advocating drama in the community: by expanding the constituency of TDP, strategic cooperation with partners, activities in new regions, and improvement of TDP's organizational capacity