Faith Groups & Community Projects
We offer a number of flexible drama projects for users in community settings to help both children and adults explore a range of themes. Please browse the options below and get in touch if you would like to discuss things more
1. A play in a day
Scene Change Theatre Company’s skilled workshop leaders will work together in a community setting through the rehearsal process covering acting skills, focus exercises, discussion forums, and interactive workshops, culminating in a performance with movement, costume and song. The day is an excellent way to build teamwork in a mixed group as well as reaching out to the locality and building community cohesion. This can be delivered to both children and adults and can act as a very effective all age activity. Follow up materials are also available for each Play in a Day project.
You can choose from any of the following Plays:
- Free For All: Exploring issues of slavery and freedom in connection with the bi-centenary of the abolition of the slave trade bill and helped to transform attitudes and lifestyles. Read more…
- World to Rights: Children travel back to Victorian England to experience life with no rights and learn about their ongoing responsibilities towards children’s rights (and human rights) both in the UK and abroad. Read more…
- Down to Earth: is a play focusing on environmental issues and encouraging children to be activists for the future. Read more…
- The King’s Quest: weaves in and out of Jacobean England to tell a story of the translation of the bible into English that not only impacted our country, but the whole world. Read More…
- The Torch: A play looking at the history of the Olympics seen through the eyes of the Olympian Gods. The play examines the Olympic values and their influence on individuals and society. Read More
Check out this example of what a typical day looks like.
2. Play in a Pack
This is a resource to equip Youth, Community & Faith leaders to be able to run their own play in a day in their community setting using the themes and material of Scene Change Theatre Company’s repertoire. The pack can be purchased on line or as a hard copy. SCTC will come to your Youth or community centre to run a day’s training to deliver the package for a group of 20 or more. At present this package is only available for the King’s Quest play.
3. Change your Scene
We can offer interactive drama workshops exploring themes connected to our plays and your communities own needs. These sessions can be run as an evening activity or done over a half or full day. You can make a booking for any of the following themes: Fight for freedom (Free For all), be a child rights activist (World to Rights), Care for the planet (Down to Earth). Alternatively contact us with your own themes and we can design appropriate material and workshops
4. Saturday’s Cool
Saturday’s Cool is a new and exciting creative arts project including drama, dance and song classes led by Scene Change Theatre’s own skilled freelance practitioners. The programme takes place over 3 hours with three 50 minute sessions for each discipline. The project can be run over a 12 week period during term time or as a holiday club activity. Or you can drop in anytime for a session as there is no commitment to book the whole term.
One project will be running in St Barnabas Church, Clapham. It will run from May until July 2012. For more details click on the Saturdayscool link.
Saturdays cool can be programmed for any day of the week (e.g. Sundays cool, or Tuesdays cool) So if you are interested to bring this programme to your community then please contact us
