The first time I heard about Teya Sepinuck and Theatre of Witness was in Derry/Londonderry, while I was taking a course in evaluation at nearby INCORE. It was one of the visits that the program had provided for all of us, and it took us to the Derry Playhouse.

There were a group of women sitting on the stage, of all ages, and the stories they shared were hard to hear. Stories of the years of the Troubles, as the conflict in Northern Ireland was called in earlier times. 

I had been in Derry some years earlier, and seen a heavily-fortified British Army guard post out of the window of the B&B where I was staying. But the British had been gone for a while when I came back this time, following the ground-breaking 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which was also discussed during gatherings held during the course.