Anti-bullying Performance

12 RedTIEtheatre students performed a new anti-bullying piece at the SEAL conference at Sandown High School on 23rd October. The piece was designed to show teachers how bullying effects students and gave some insights into the feelings of bullies, their victims and highlighted the dangers of not dealing with this issue in schools.
The students gave a thought-provoking, focused and creative performance, bringing tears to the eyes of many in the audience. Andrew Butcher, Ellie Swan and Charlotte Bell played the victims to perfection, revealing the agony, anger and isolation felt by many of our children on a daily basis. Many teachers present asked for the piece to be taken to their schools.

Saturday Workshops

The Saturday workshops at Nodehill Middle School have been varied and exciting so far this term. A change of venue has given us more space to work in - not to mention the extra running around space for some of our more energetic drama games! We started the term with the usual "back to basics" skills - amazing how some actors forget all about posture and focus after an 8 week break! But everyone is well and truly on form, having worked on posture, gesture, physical theatre, vocal skills, accents and the devising process. Joe Ashworth and Bill Holland gave us plenty to laugh about with their "inept pilots" sketch, while Marie Hickman and friends brought us close to tears with their devised piece last Saturday. In the younger group we can really see how confident some students have become over the past few weeks, with devised pieces that showed great maturity and creativity. Now we will start to work towards 2 devised performances for around Feb/March 2010 - subject matter to be revealed at a later date.....Watch this space!