Cracked Mirrors is a bold attempt at understanding children's deep pain and suffering due to sexual abuse. Through a series of poignant and gripping vignettes woven together by rap and song, we get a glimpse into the lives of four victims.

Since the early ’90s, theatre has been an essential tool of Stairway’s advocacy. Not only a powerful form of communication, theatre also serves as an effective healing device for youth who have been a part of Stairway.

Cracked Mirrors is performed with striking conviction by three members of Stairway’s homegrown theater group, TASK (Talented Ambitious Street Kids), who themselves used to live and work on the streets. The authenticity they manage to emote throughout their monologues stems from their relation to the issue of abuse that they confront.

Cracked Mirrors has been shown to groups of government organizations (GOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs), students, teachers, social workers, and church groups as part of ongoing information and training workshops on Children’s Rights and Child Sexual Abuse Prevention. Aside from being a creative and highly effective tool in all of the trainings facilitated within Stairway’s Learning and Resource Center, the play has also toured and reached thousands of audiences in Thailand, Singapore, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, and Australia. Wherever it goes, it has the same effect of stirring up emotions and challenging spectators’ views and perceptions regarding the issue of child sexual abuse.

Topics of discussion include: abuse and recovery, love, hate, the legal system, the psychology of the perpetrator, the concept of forgiveness, restorative justice, indifference and participation.