Theatre for Schools
We’ve got some fantastic opportunities for you and your students in our exciting programme for Summer and Autumn 2024.
Devising: a practical workshop to kick-
start your students’ devising modules
for GCSE and Post-16 courses
Careers focused industry days
Tours: production focused or general
theatre tours
Bespoke theatre workshops
Health and wellbeing creative
workshops Welcome!
We’d love to know which shows you would like your students to see in the
New Wolsey Theatre’s school productions programme for 2025
Please contact: Rebecca Hall
Phone 01473 295930 or email
RHall@wolseytheatre.co.uk Have Your Say!!
Footloose
13 - 26 OCT 2024
Time to cut loose! We’re heading back
to the 1980s to stage a spectacular
new production of the explosive
musical Footloose
Meet The Creatives Workshop
Autumn 2024
Students get the chance to work with a
Celebrating 40 years premiered - your students will love this energetic storyline of young people overcoming restriction and fighting for their beliefs.
This production is suitable for students
studying Performing Arts at Key stage 4,
post 16 and also those students studying
Music, Drama and Dance at GCSE to
review the show or to experience a live
musical theatre production with actor
musicians
theatre works! is a charity that makes
theatre more accessible for children &
young people They provide grants to
theatres & schools to cover the costs of
tickets and travel to regional theatres
Find out how to apply:
theatreworks.global
What The Butler Saw
Presented by London Classic Theatre
Tue 14 - Sat 18 May 2024
A classic comedy, which would be a great production to use for a live performance
review module.
Age Under 22 - FREE tickets The New Wolsey Theatre Young Company and Youth Theatre members bring to life an ‘accessible and anarchic’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest comedy on the main stage! Students can experience LIVE theatre for FREE. Adult tickets: £10 GRANTS FOR SCHOOLS A New Wolsey Theatre and Pitlochry Festival Theatre
professional theatre maker and unpack
the process of putting on a large scale
musical production
Hands on, practical and energetic workshop designed to immerse students into the creative process.
Opportunity to find out about a creatives
career pathway – a great way to build on your
careers strategy
Workshop cost: £150 plus VAT
Workshop capacity: 20 students plus staff
Presented by the New Wolsey Theatre
Thu 8 - Sat 10 Aug 2024
After the Act’s cast take us from the
adolescent anguish of the classroom to the heated debates of Parliament via euphoric
celebration and impassioned street demonstrations
An amazing opportunity for your Performing Arts students to see a groundbreaking new musical.
TableManners
Tue 5 - Sat 9 Nov 2024
Tue 29 - Wed 30 Oct 2024
In this verbatim musical, (almost) every word is taken from interviews from students, activists, and teachers, as well
as from tabloid articles and news clips
SristhiPathways
Tue 17 Sep 2024 AfterTheAct
Presented by SRISHTI - Nina Rajarani Dance Creations
A unique opportunity for Dance and performing Arts Students to see three Bharantanatyam dances
- a classical Indian dance style choreographed by award winning artistic director Nina Rajarani.
A great show for GCSE and A’level Drama and Performing
Arts students to review a
classic British comedy from
Alan Ayckbourn
Theatre Design
CPD Workshop (online) 3 June 2024 - 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Join award-winning theatre designer Sara
Perks (Footloose West End, Mind
Mangler, Apollo Theatre, West End) as
she unpacks her creative process around
set and costume design which links
directly to examination criteria for Drama and Theatre Studies students.
Fee: £40
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