FUTURE YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE PRODUCTIONS

Touring to Years 7 & 8 in May - July 2008
Supported by Safer London Foundation

The Inquiry is a participatory piece of theatre created to explore issues of young people engaging in gang culture and choosing to carry weapons, specifically guns and knives.

The project was successfully piloted to 7 schools in Camden, Haringey, Islington, Greenwich and Lewisham for two weeks in November 2007

The 90-minute programme of performance & workshop includes:

A 40-minute performance by two professional actors, presented in the style of a day time chat show. The audience will meet a series of characters linked to gun or knife crime. Characters include a personification of the Gun and the Knife, a young person at risk of gang involvement, the mother of a victim, a police woman, a ‘celebrity’ rap artist, and a reformed gang member and ex-con.

50-minute workshop & discussion. The students join the actors and take ‘the stage’ to improvise scenes. This section of the programme uses Forum theatre techniques and encourages students to: Question the characters; Challenge the stereotypes presented; Find alternative courses of action for key protagonists to take.

Education Resource Pack which includes background information and follow up activities.

The Inquiry aims to:

• Empower young people to discuss and explore issues that are hard to embrace amongst their peers;
• Giving teachers a platform for discussing further these and related issues with students;
• Encourage positive approaches to peer learning and opinion sharing;
• Dispel the myth that the carrying of dangerous weapons is ‘cool.’

We will be re-touring our successful production of Mud City
to Years 5 & 6, in the Autumn 2008

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