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This research report follows five theatre companies of actors with mental impairments in the European area. The premise is that these theatre companies are not primarily concerned with the social dimension of their activity, but with the artistic aspect of their work. The author expects that these theatres, through their work, simultaneously carry messages that can be political and socially impactful, and her research verifies this expectation. The report also describes the differences across the selected companies in their approach to their internal organisation, and consequently to the theatrical production of these theatres. The text looks at the possibilities of strategies for working with an ensemble of actors with mental disabilities, both inwards towards the team (variations of the starting points for joint creative work) and outwards (branding built on this specificity, the purposeful use of this specificity and concrete examples of it).