Theatre has the enormous capacity to change people’s lives and to challenge previously held beliefs or perceptions. Using Theatrical and Dramatic techniques the work allows the exploration of “characters” within the community developing and illustrating explicitly dangerous and extreme views that can divide a Community like Stoke-on-Trent. The process allows participants to explore safely issues and use real stories from pupil’s experiences to find new and positive outcomes.
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  • Sport as a shared experience is also about cultural identity, with a city wide iconic standing within the community which opens the gateway of exploring identity. Depending on the programme of work i.e. High School, Primary School or Higher Education it can also help young people to acquire many disciplines and standards in order to achieve positive outcomes, this also enables the raising of aspirations.
  • Together Theatre and Sport can offer a safe vehicle that can include particular communities that may feel marginalised in relation to these sensitive issues and includes them rather than excludes them in an encompassing process. This allows a journey of trust and sharing not only for the participant pupils but also for the schools themselves and the partner agencies that support the work of “Game On”.
  • Football Clubs are the physical embodiments of cohesion in Stoke-on-Trent. It allows the young people to understand the complex nature of cohesion rivalry and “enemies”. Using the two football clubs resident in Stoke-on-Trent it allows us to begin challenging the young people who say that within their community “they can’t work together”. This allows the exploration and the challenging of views and beliefs surrounding other communities, faiths and political beliefs.
Lead contacts:
 
Project Co-Ordinator
 01782 294871
 
Lead Practitioner
Dominic Meir
 
Practitioners
Emily Bowman
Eleanor Bott
Liz Fitzgerald Taylor
 
Robert Marsden, Artistic Director of Reveal Theatre
Robert.marsden@revealtheatre.co.uk