The development of RT stems from a desire to create performance based outcomes for actors in training in method-acting workshop environments. Actors working with RT processes, practice performance skills while putting themselves whole-heartedly in the stories being played out.
Deep experiential learning requires emotional, physical and mental investment which results in an immersive experience for the actors participating and observing – this process supports the goal of believability in acting and story telling. Creating a state of believability, or a believable performance, while subjective, can be thought of in these terms – emotional investment tends to lead to emotional truth which tends to lead to a believable performance. Another way of determining a ‘believable’ performance may be to ask the questions: do we relate, do we empathise, do we understand or do we respond physiologically or emotionally in an automatic or unconscious way?
Raw Theatre seeks to create story enactments – performances – that strive for the authentic, the believable and the immersive experience. This is reflectied in a pedagogical desire for student actors to gain an experiential understanding of an organicaly derived performance as they philisophicaly embrace the tenets method acting.

As Raw Theatre develops it is envisaged that its purposes will grow to include entertainment, breakthrough and devising.(see table below).In the first instance it is being applied as an experiential and immediate means of informing and enhancing method actor training. A method actor in this sense is an actor who commits to experiencing the story being told at an energetic, emotional and imaginative level.
Raw Theatre takes method based principles and provides a form where these principles can be applied to create an immediate perfomance. The performance at the workshop or masterclass level exists as a minimalist theatrical experience as there is little else aside from bodies and space. The immediate enactment, resulting discussion and sometime debate is the total performance.
The implications of the development of RT leads to possible performance outcomes that go beyond a classroom structure, leading toward educational potentials at a tertiary and corporate level and further toward the mass entertainment arena.