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Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah

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Statement

The Blahs are a theatre in education company so by definition we work in schools and create work for children and young people. Primary schools provide havens of safety for many children living in marginalised housing estates, which is where most of our work takes place. Primary education can allow children to learn together as a group before they become streamlined and put into their individual learning goals in secondary education. Drama encourages children to work together and learn from each other with the guidance of adults who continually push them beyond their comfort zone, which is where learning takes place. We use participatory theatre, based on techniques created by Dorothy Heathcote. The children help us make the drama by responding to actors who may be in a role as a character who needs their help or having watched a theatre scene which requires the children to intervene. We get the children involved in real moral dilemmas which require the children to look to themselves and each other for the answer and not to a teacher. We have just completed a three year project based on the story of Silas Marner in Richmond Hill Achievement Zone in Leeds.

Experience

2001 - 2003 Theatre Company in partnership with Richmond Hill Education Action Zone - devised and delivered a T.I.E programme over eight weeks working with eight classes in year six, Richmond Hill Achievement Zone, Leeds

2002 - 2002 T.I.E Company in Residence - trained fifteen primary/secondary school teachers in T.I.E methodology, Shri Ram School, Delhi, India2000 T.I.E Company tour of primary schools - participatory programme based on Roman occupation of Celtic Britain, Seacroft and Manston Family of Schools, Leeds

2001 Christmas show at West Yorkshire Playhouse - schools and families watched a family Christmas show, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds

2001 T.I.E Company tour of primary schools - participatory programme based on The Secret Garden, Seacroft Family of Schools, Leeds



Website

www.blahs.co.uk

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