The goal of these workshops is to usher wider audiences of working adults, children, educators, and the elderly into the relatively little-known world of “theatrical education” through a series of focused, illuminating experiences. What makes the Yamanote Jijosha approach unique is its “Yamanote Method”—a system that forgoes the use of scripts to focus on getting participants to create independently and think up their own movements, actions, and lines. When that free-willed creativity meets a strong commitment to making the most out of the experience, the results can be extraordinarily rewarding. Striving to “make our Tokyo home a hub of forward-thinking performing arts,” Yamanote Jijosha runs a wide array of workshops to set the stage for a “civic theater” performance by residents of Ota-ku—where the troupe rehearses—three years down the road.