Masterclasses and Training

We have given numerous participatory workshops/masterclasses and training in schools, colleges and universities across the North West. We are happy to share our skills, knowledge and vast experience with you. These workshops can be tailored to any length of time and any group.

More details coming soon…

Actor/Artist as Facilitator

How do I facilitate creative spaces with communities?

How can I create and plan really good drama workshops?

How can encourage meaningful questioning and reflection?

This course will give you the skills to design and facilitate deep learning experiences using a range of drama techniques; providing you with the tools to immerse participants into enjoyable and imaginative workshops. The course would suit drama facilitators, teachers, actors, theatre makers and performers who are looking to develop their understanding, knowledge and to refresh their workshop plans.

Our pedagogical approach is underpinned by Edward Bond and Dorothy Heathcote.

We have been delivering drama for learning workshops for over 25 years and have had lots of successes and made lots of mistakes which we are happy to share with you :)

Autobiographical Performance

How do you take your own story and create theatre?

How do you find the unique and the universal within the material?

How do you share and keep yourself safe at the same time?

This series of workshops are aimed at those artists, performers or actors who have an idea (or a niggle of an idea) and want the creative space and support to develop their work. Through a series of creative exercises and discussions, we will help you to form and develop your idea into a short scratch performance. These sessions will allow participants to explore personal material and experiment with form in a safe and constructive space.

Most of our work begins with our own stories and we love negotiating how memory and experiences can become theatre. Personal starting points for us have varied from, first heartbreak, to how our parents met, becoming parents, growing up skint in 1980s and being a teenage in a 1990.

Fancy seeing a play as well? Wake Up, Maggie! is an autobiographical performance about growing up withowt nowt and asks if social mobility can ever really happen. We can bring the play and a workshop or post show discussion to you!

Socially Engaged Theatre

How do you create ‘meaningful’ experiences for an audience?

What are the ethical challenges of working with verbatim?

How do you create ‘meaningful’ experiences for an audience?

This course will explore the challenges and joys of creating work that aims to provoke, prompt and encourage change. Through a series of practical exercises we will be considering ways to create challenging work that provides audiences with safe and transformational experiences. We will look at how the invitation for audiences to participate is managed, how the work asks questions and how it can create opportunities for audiences to connect personally and communally. This would suit facilitators, practitioners, directors, producers, performers and actors.

We are specialists in making socially engaged theatre and all the wonderful joys and tensions it can bring.