Secondary

Please note I have few photos of work in schools due to safeguarding and school policies.

INTO THE SPACE: Project over a term or longer

Workshops in school/college setting before visiting workshops for young children and their carers, primary aged children and adults: joining the play, observing the play, learning to lead/direct and using the ideas  to devise a performance.

Objectives:

Developing theatre craft through play to explore devising physically.

Re-kindle an instinct to play. 

Building students' physical theatre language and confidence to jump-in!

Being comfortable in the moment, respond to reaction and achieve an authentic presence.

Being part of an inter-generational performance project. 

Directing: learning to lead sessions.

Out of the Bag for KS3, 4 & 5 / Years 7 to 13:

• Bespoke One-off or series of Workshops: to link with curriculum, GCSE or AS/A level studies; or, to provide extra-curricular dimension. Choose from Specialist Selection below.

• Direction of a Production: whether text based or devised with students.

• After School or Lunch time Clubs: build a physical  theatre language. Work towards a devised performance.

• Work towards Arts Award Bronze or Silver through any of the above.

Workshops can be designed to apply to a variety of subjects not just Drama (e.g. English Literature and Language; History; PSHE ; Citizenship).

Specialist Selection:

• Masks

• Clowning

• The Ensemble & Physical Theatre

• The Grotesque: physical character building

• Physical Words: moving text (poems, stories, scripts) from page to body and voice.

• My Language My Theatre: students use their own written and spoken material to create their own theatre.

All workshops develop a theatre language using space, body and voice.