Theatre
Voices of Arran
29th March – 1st April 2010 saw Reveal Theatre traveling to Arran to present a new piece of site specific documentary theatre exploring the Highland Clearances in association with Keele.
Directed by Robert Marsden and featuring Sean O’Callaghan and Megan Hall who both played a number of documentary scenes on the Island.
UNDERSTANDING THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES
A group of PGCE History course students have visited Arran to develop an understanding of the constructed nature of the history of the islanders during the Highland Clearances. They were joined by Reveal Theatre, the Theatre Company in Residence and Maria Whatton, a story teller.
Author Alison Prince, of 'Trumpton' fame, who is now a writer of teenage fiction, visited the project and commented: "I joined a group of tutors who had brought 16 PGCE students from Keele to look at the way traditional story-telling could express human experience. Both staff and students wore blue sweatshirts lettered with the question, 'What's the point?' It was not a cynical inquiry, but a reminder to budding teachers that whatever they offer to their pupils has to have a real purpose. The students braved blizzards and icy winds to explore ruined clachans and sense for themselves the results of the Clearances
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