education

past productions

For The Best by Rosy Fordham (2005) A Co-Production with Theatre Exchange. Schools Tour with actors John Soffe and Vicky Barkland. An elderly woman travels back to the town from which she was evacuated in the Second World War. On the journey she encounters a Kosovan Refugee and discovers they have a lot more in common than anyone would imagine.

The White Canary (2004) by Craig Baxter with Digital & Sound Artists Catherine Watling and Simon McCorry. Multi-Media, Installation Performance using scientific data from the British Antarctic Survey to recreate the plummeting temperatures and disorientating sensations of the Antarctic. Cambridge Science Festival and Schools Tour.

Baking a Cake (June 2003) – A new recipe for Creative Partnership schools in South London which introduced dance music, puppetry, animation and Afro-Carribean performance poetry in to the mix.

Loved by Anna Reynolds (2002) – Schools Installation Project with teenagers, investigating themes of loss and bereavement. Anna Reynolds is one of our most prominent young writers. Credits include: Jordan (Winner of the Best New Play at The Writer’s Guild Awards), Wild Things (Salisbury Playhouse and Traverse Theatre), Skin Hunger (White Bear & BAC) awarded Time Out Critics Choice. Anna has been Writer in Residence at The Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Paines Plough and Clean Break Theatre Companies.

Still Rising - The Text Message Education Project (in partnership with the National Theatre) (2001). Texts by Young Writers from Ghana, Albania and Algeria for The London Youth Arts Festival. As part of Lewisham’s Black History Month, Writers investigated reparations due to African states for the destruction caused by the seventeenth century transatlantic slave trade.

current education project
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White Canary

Schools Workshop