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Learn about Clean Break's unique, trauma-informed way of working and how we make an impact.

Natasha Bucknor MBE

Black History Month: Honouring Community Leaders with Executive Director Natasha Bucknor MBE

Clean Break's Executive Director explores the 2026 Black History Month theme of 'Honouring our Communities', sharing reflections on the spaces and people she's found community in
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Professor Laura Abbott on Baby: a story we cannot afford to look away from

Midwife and lead of the Lost Mothers research project on maternal separation in prison reviews Baby, a co-production from Clean Break and Brixton House

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How We Work

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Interview with Clean Break’s Members Festival Producer

Members Festival Producer Claire Bayley tells us about her experience of working on our 2024 festival, Beyond.
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Actions not Words: anti-racism consultancy with darvaja

Anti-racism consultants darvaja in conversation with Clean Break
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Why does Clean Break have a Co-Chairing Model?

Clean Break’s previous Co-Chairs Tanya Tracey and Alison Frater share insights from their two years of sharing leadership of our Board of Trustees
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Co-creating Hope

We asked Hope's co-creators, what was unique about making this film?
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Co-producing a Clean Break play with Maya Ellis

Producer Maya Ellis explains how a Clean Break play is made

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Trauma informed practice

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How do I plan a theatre trip for people with lived experience of trauma?

Our team have shared how they plan a theatre trip for Clean Break Members
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Co-producing a Clean Break play with Maya Ellis

Producer Maya Ellis explains how a Clean Break play is made
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How can we support survivors of Child Sexual Abuse?

Nicole Walsh on why CSA needs to be treated as more than a 'negative childhood experience'

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Bitesize Learning Video Series

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Bitesize Learning: Holding Trauma Responses with Care

How do Clean Break facilitators hold spaces safely when trauma responses show up?
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Bitesize Learning: Creative Activity Ideas for Frontline Workers

Three top tips for how to bring creativity into your work as a frontline practitioner.
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Bitesize Learning: Overcoming Self Limiting Beliefs at Work

Understand how self-limiting beliefs could be holding you back and achieve your full potential.

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Professor Laura Abbott at an event sspeaking at a lectern, and Pearl Mackie on stage as Baby holding a baby doll

Professor Laura Abbott on Baby: a story we cannot afford to look away from

Midwife and lead of the Lost Mothers research project on maternal separation in prison reviews Baby, a co-production from Clean Break and Brixton House
Natasha Bucknor MBE

Black History Month: Honouring Community Leaders with Executive Director Natasha Bucknor MBE

Clean Break's Executive Director explores the 2026 Black History Month theme of 'Honouring our Communities', sharing reflections on the spaces and people she's found community in
a rehearsal of Macbeth from Italian prison theatre company

Blog: Anna Herrmann Visits Prison Theatre Company in Italy

Clean Break's Artistic Director attends a study day with European prison theatre companies

Training

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Learn with Clean Break

Join Clean Break's training programme and learn from decades of experience transforming lives through theatre.
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Why does Clean Break have a Co-Chairing Model?

Clean Break’s previous Co-Chairs Tanya Tracey and Alison Frater share insights from their two years of sharing leadership of our Board of Trustees
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About us

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Clean Break changes lives and changes minds through theatre – on stage, in prison and in the community. We produce ground-breaking plays with women’s voices at the heart of our work and use theatre to transform the lives of women with experience of the criminal justice system or at risk of entering it.

Our History

Clean Break Theatre Company with the Mayor of Camden outside HMP Holloway, 1986
Clean Break was established by two women in prison in 1979, at HMP Askham Grange, who believed that theatre could bring the hidden stories of women who are criminalised to a wider audience. Explore Clean Break’s radical and unique story in our interactive digital archive.

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