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News and Current Events - 9th March 2010

Theatre Company in Residence

Keele University

Reveal continues its position as Theatre Company in Residence at Keele University for 2009/10
Reveal will be working with History, MFL, Social Sciences, ICT and English departments to head work on bringing creativity into the classroom.

Work with Keele in 2010 includes:

  • Working with English department on Forum Theatre Techniques
  • Work with Modern Foreign Languages and Social Sciences in February
  • Exploring issues of teachers exploring and tackling racism.

We are also delivering VOICE CLASSES for teachers across Shropshire and Staffordshire with actor Sean O’Callaghan throughout February.

Read our recent feature in The Stage by Susan Elkin on our work with Keele University:
Theatre company helps train history teachers



WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES

New Theatre Companies to be launched!!

Later this Spring Reveal Theatre will be working in partnership with a number of local organisations to lead a number of Disability Arts Theatre Companies across North Staffordshire.
News to follow shortly….


Game On

Reveal Theatre Company is very proud to be continuing this exciting community project combating racism and extremist views by promoting equality for everyone in Stoke-on-Trent.

Further details can be found at http://www.gameonstaffs.com

Practitioners Ellie Bott, Liz Fitzgerald-Taylor and Dominic Meir delivered form November through to Christmas.

2010 sees new practitioners joining the team as the work expands across the City.

Exciting new developments this academic year include new schools to the programme including a series of primaries; plus development work with teachers and trainee teachers through Keele University and links with the PREVENT strategy.

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Sadiq Khan refers to the GAME ON project at the Hate Crime Showcase at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). Julia Barton, Dominic Meir and Robert Marsden showcased GAME ON at the event at the invitation of the DCLG on Thursday 30th April 2009. read more here

FUNDED BY Staffordshire Police and the Department of Communities and Local Government and partnered with Port Vale and Stoke City Football Clubs and  association with PARINS.


NEW PRODUCTIONS FOR 2010

Voices of Arron

Highlands

29th March – 1st April will see Reveal Theatre traveling to Arran to present a new piece of site specific documentary theatre exploring the Highland Clearances in association with Keele.
Megan Hall and Dominic Meir will play a number of documentary scenes on the Island.
More news to follow.


Silent Anger

Directed by Patrick Connellan

Click here to go to the production webpage.

Touring 26th April to 26th May

Silent Anger is  a new professional documentary play will be produced this Spring and Summer to support the Game On programme.

Examining the rise of extremism in Stoke on Trent, this powerful piece of theatre will aim to break down barriers and challenge preconceptions.

Touring to schools and theatres across Staffordshire.


WORKING WITH SCHOOLS

LONGTON REMEMBERED...

Creative Partnerships

From January until July, Reveal Theatre will be working with Creative Partnerships / PiCL at Longton High School, Stoke on Trent.

Longton High School

Entitled Longton Remembered, a team of creative artists will be working with pupils to remember Longton High School and celebrate its past, examine the present, a look forward to the future
and will culminate in a major public event this July.


 

 

 

Currently funded by Staffordshire Police and the Department of Communities and Local Government.

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