Educational workshop programmes

Culture and diversity

We work to engage all communities, bringing presentations to your establishment that will highlight many wonderful lifestyles that lead to  discussions and questions. We have many images from Africa and a documentrary that shows part of our intercultural work in Tanzania.

Cultural awareness and diversity
A day of drama and how to gain confidence working within a group whilst creating a dramatic scene that explores a historical event or situation.
This is a one day workshop that explores a social and/or political issue that can be used to assist history sessions such as slavery and the missionaries’ movement in Africa, the changes in South Africa, civil wars in certain countries or as an event that relates to a moment in history.

Black history
We have a workshop for Black History month that, using drama and movement, creates and explores a piece of theatre that encompasses the ideas and outcomes of slavery, and the spread of colonial movement.

One example is a day workshop on ‘And The River Weeps’; a provoking original piece exploring Ariel Dorfman's "Widows" and Dorfman's attempt to have his play performed in Chile. Part rural fantasy, part psychological thriller, ‘And The River Weeps’ is about brutalised people who refuse to "behave". This is political theatre at its best; challenging, revealing, confrontational and vital.

Suitability
‘And the River Weeps’ is suitable for children of fourteen and above who are studying Drama, English Literature and Citizenship. It looks at the roles of community leadership, how conflicts emerge and how the media is used to suppress the truth or misinform.
Please enquire should you want to cover a specific topic or event.

Other programmes
The Missionaries and Slavery from Africa
The Long Journey of a London Slave
The Victorian Days

See our professional performance from Africa, I Wait Till Dusk, a cultural performance; see current theatre projects to know more.