Theatre productions
Theatre is a fantastic way to present a message
Theatre is an experience that encourages some kind of reaction, whether about the quality of the performance or about the story or our own personal reaction to the topics raised. Theatre impacts our thinking and the Pure Theatre in Education Company educates young people through theatre performances by stimulating them to think about topics in a different way.
In school sessions, Pure will usually offer a 30-minute production looking at and presenting issues that affect young people, such as eating disorders and self esteem, pressure, identity, sex and relationships and self harm. Each performance is followed by an interactive theatre session, including theatrical techniques such as forum, hot seating and improvisation.
The sessions provide a safe environment for young people to explore the issues they face, and the performance acts as a springboard to encourage discussion, provoking them to ask questions, and see things from a new perspective.
Current Productions include ‘Mirror Mirror’, ‘Hold Me’, 'Vickys Secret' and ‘Shine’.
As many of the issues raised are extremely sensitive we recommend that they are performed to year 8 pupils and above, however this is a guideline only and we will liaise with individual schools as to what age limit they feel would be most appropriate.
'I could relate one aspect of each character's personality to my own and that made me think about how I am feeling about myself, and how I should deal with my feelings'
Year 10 pupil, St Wilfred's School
