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Beyond the Curriculum
Discover Derby Theatre: A Learning Theatre
Opportunities for children and young people to connect with us in their own time
Our model here at Derby is unique – we are transforming the landscape of theatre and learning by providing special access to professional theatre-making and nurturing creativity in all ages.
Youth Theatre We run weekly sessions that develop confidence, technique and skills. We work towards a major annual show on the main stage and in our studio theatre. Age 8 – 10 years: Tuesdays in term time 5pm – 6.30pm Age 11 – 13 years: Sundays in term time 10am – 11.30am Age 14 – 16 years: Sundays in term time 2pm – 3.30pm Age 17 – 19 years: Sundays in term time 11.45am – 1.45pm £70 a term* We currently have a waiting list for most of these groups. Once you apply we will let you know as soon as a place becomes available.
Our innovative approach to threading learning through everything we do has gained us national recognition and reputation:
*For all our youth groups there are a limited number of half price and free places available for families with limited financial means – please enquire. The next in-take for our youth theatre will be in July/August 2016 and spaces will be offered initially to those people at the top of our waiting list. If you would like to be added to our waiting list then please contact our Box Office on 01332 593939.
“Increasingly the most crucial theatre in the region because of its emphasis on learning, nurturing and nourishing”. Lyn Gardner, The Guardian We have something for learners at all stages, which can be tailored to meet your needs and can be anything from a simple workshop to a long term developmental partnership. To enquire about any aspect of our Learning Programme, contact the Learning Department.
Caroline Barth, Head of Learning
Nicky Bellenger, Creative Learning Associate
Beth Williams, Stage Management and Learning Coordinator
Theatre Thinkers Tell us what you think The last Thursday of every month in term time, 4.30 – 6pm Have you ever wanted to know more about how a theatre works across all the different departments? Our Theatre Thinkers group
Cheryl Mitchell, Creative Learning Assistant
Email: learning@derbytheatre.co.uk
meets monthly to work with professional designers, programmers and marketing professionals, amongst others. You will also help us make important decisions and put on events that make Derby Theatre even more buzzing for young people. Free group. Contact us to reserve your place Age 11–19 years
Young Technicians
Costume & Prop Hire
Our annual course for Young Technicians runs fortnightly and looks at all aspects of the theatre including lighting, sound, stage and design. The final term of the year is left open for practical experiences and shadowing here at the theatre. If you would like to join the list for the next Young Technicians course starting September 2016 then please contact the Box Office.
We hire costumes and props to schools and colleges. We have over 2,500 costume pieces built up over many years and are always adding to our stock. We can even make you something specific if we aren’t too busy. Our Head of Wardrobe is on hand to help with patterns, books and brilliant advice. Contact Tim Heywood: t.heywood@derby.ac.uk
£35 per term Age 11-19 years
Photo credit: Robert Day
The learning continues… Derby Theatre works in partnership with the University of Derby to deliver a number of unique and exciting theatre-related degrees, including Technical Theatre and Contemporary Theatre and Performance. Students get invaluable industry experience, learning alongside the professionals in Derby Theatre, a venue owned by the university.
KEY DATES
Derby Theatre’s Learning Programme for Schools, Colleges and Young People
Derby Theatre Holiday Workshops
Once Upon A (Workshop 1)
April to June
Derby Theatre National Theatre Connections Festival
Thu 28 April – Sat 7 May
Hamlet & All’s Well That Ends Well double bill
Tue 24 – Sat 28 May
Mask Work with Trestle Theatre
Thu 16 June
The Complete Deaths
Thu 16 – Fri 17 June
Once Upon A (Workshop 2)
Tue 5 July
Augustus & His Smile Show & Workshop
Thu 7 July
Derby Theatre Summer School
Mon 22 – Fri 26 Aug
Complicité Teaching & Devising
Wed 12 Oct
Alice in Wonderland Relaxed Performance
Thu 5 Jan
Come and join Derby Theatre professionals for a week to learn new skills and create a brand new story for a mini performance to be shared on the final day with friends and family... Summer School – Mon 22 to Fri 26 August Age 8 – 12 years £65 per person
PRICING & HOW TO BOOK SHOWS
HOW TO BOOK
Refer to our autumn brochure or check our website for information about the following shows that qualify for a school party rate of £9.50 per ticket plus every 11th ticket free for a teacher/supervisor for:
To book tickets for performances, call the Box Office on 01332 59 39 39 or email tickets@derbytheatre.co.uk
All’s Well That Ends Well
To book workshop places or to make an enquiry about any aspect of our Learning programme, contact the Learning department:
The Complete Deaths
Email: learning@derbytheatre.co.uk
School tickets for Alice in Wonderland are from £10 each plus every 11th ticket free
Caroline Barth, Head of Learning: 01332 593944
Coming by coach? We can help you to arrange the drop-off point.
Nicky Bellenger, Creative Learning Associate: 01332 593919 Beth Williams, Stage Management and Learning Coordinator: 01332 593913
Workshops
We can also assist you with any questions you may have when completing a risk assessment for your visit.
Other
WORKSHOPS
Hamlet
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I loved the opportunity to work with professional actors and directors.
Derbyshire Community Foundation For Derbyshire for good
Box Office: 01332 59 39 39 | derbytheatre.co.uk
Derby Theatre’s Learning Programme is sponsored by Reprotec
Derby Theatre is part of
Year 10 student Archbishop Ilsley Catholic Technology College
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We would like to thank the following organisations for their generous support:
KEY Performances
Photo credits: Robert Day, Steve Gretsy, Richard Richards & Chris Webb
For specific workshop pricing please refer to individual events.
Cheryl Mitchell, Creative Learning Assistant: 01332 593913
Post-Show Discussions We hold post-show discussions with the company and director. Please see the timeline for dates.
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Explore Lewis Caroll’s extraordinary poem through drama and movement, to inspire the creation of the children’s own legendary monsters and poems. Perfect for KS2 2 hours Dates: Please enquire School or theatre-based £180 or £100 if you book 30+ tickets for the show
Perfect for age 5+
Hamlet & All’s Well That Ends Well double bill
Develops team working, design and numeracy (scale) Open up a world of creativity and imagination in your classroom. Taking a story or a play that you’re studying as a starting point, our professional creatives will work with your class to unlock design ideas for props, costume and scenery. Years 3 – 6 2 hours Dates: Please enquire £100
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Tuesday 24 – Saturday 28 May Marking ‘Shakespeare 400’, four centuries since the great playwright died, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, bring a double bill of his work. A single cast of 15 actors will perform both of the Bard’s plays.
Let us arrange an unforgettable cultural enrichment day for your students, which encompasses a wide range of arts experiences in venues right in the heart of the city. We can cater for large numbers and provide anything from your own private film screening to aerial work, hip hop or staging a play in a day, complete with lighting and sound. Derby Theatre works in close partnership with Déda and QUAD which are all within easy walking distance of each other. We can arrange everything, even the transport. Please enquire for dates and costs.
For Early Years
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Once Upon A... Creative ways to tackle the KS2 literacy curriculum Derby Theatre is part of an extraordinary new national project working with Filament Theatre Company and other theatres and schools around the UK. Your school can be one of the few selected to be part of creating a new professional musical theatre show with words, stories and musical ideas dreamt up by your pupils around the theme of making a journey. Reflecting the diverse heritage of our participants we will embark upon adventures, meeting heroes and heroines, villains and jokers, journeying far and wide but also close to home. Workshop 1 (available April to June): will focus on techniques for inspiring children to construct stories using drama and music exercises. (School-based) We will explore a physical approach to creating characters, developing stories and dilemmas/problems and importantly, we will look at how music and songwriting can be used to bring a whole different layer to the storytelling process. The work will directly feed into the KS2 curriculum aims for music and literacy, considering the story mountain and narrative construction alongside developing the children’s understanding of pitch, tone, rhythm and composition.
Augustus and His Smile Show & Workshop Augustus the Tiger has lost his smile... He travels across the world to find it. Workshop 2 (Tue 5 July): will take place at the theatre and will be a chance for the children to continue to develop their ideas and then share them in an informal performance in our studio theatre for friends and family. Tickets for families are free. After this initial phase in spring and summer 2016, Filament will work with a professional cast to turn these ideas into a touring theatre show which your young creators and family theatre audience will be able to see in summer 2017. Connect with the other participating schools (in London and Oxford) via a website which will host the ideas of all the participating schools. CPD for teachers (date to coincide with either workshop 1 or 2): looking at creative ways to tackle the KS2 literacy curriculum. A hands-on session focusing on techniques for inspiring children to construct stories using drama and music exercises which can feed into classroom writing work. Years 3 – 5 Cost: Workshop 1 only - £150 Workshop 1 and 2 together: £200 Workshop 1, 2 and CPD: £300 This work is highly subsidised.
This story is brought to life through puppetry, mask and physical theatre. Children are invited to help Augustus find his smile and through doing so make their own discoveries about the meaning of happiness and well-being. Join Augustus and help him on his search from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the highest mountains. Along the way you can expect to have a wonderful, joyful adventure of your own!! Learning outcomes for children who attend the performance and workshop will include developing literacy skills, exploring happiness and wellbeing, celebrating a diverse community heritage, developing effective communication skills. Age: 4+ Date: Thu 7 July Call Box Office for show and workshop prices.
Create a show to be performed at Derby Theatre For Further Education settings Sept – Dec 2016 We are offering a unique opportunity for a college or sixth form to work with our professional team for a term, to create a promenade show to be performed at the theatre as a curtain-raiser and contemporary response to Alice in Wonderland. Your students will work as a professional company, supported by our team to design, costume, stage manage, light, devise and perform in this show. This is an excellent and intensive insight to the professional theatre-making process. Students will even get the opportunity to go into Alice in Wonderland rehearsals. Email learning@derbytheatre.co.uk for costs
For Teachers Don’t be on your own: Join the Teachers’ Drama Network! We support both Primary and Secondary school teachers in the region through a termly networking session: practical training from the best practitioners in theatre, practice sharing with colleagues and useful news updates. For teachers of Drama and Performing Arts and for those who want to develop their use of drama as a tool for engaging learning.
Mask Work with Trestle Theatre
Arts Award Day Build Derby Theatre into your plans for Arts Award for all levels. Discover theatre and find out about professional artists. We aim to inspire your pupils, giving them the knowledge they need to help complete their award. Cost: £50 Dates: Please enquire
Thu 16 June, 5pm – 7.30pm Trestle’s INSET courses for drama teachers, professional practitioners and workshop leaders provide a unique opportunity to develop teaching and performance skills in mask, half mask and physical theatre, as well as discovering new ways of helping students create dynamic performances.
Complicité: Teaching Devising
Cultural Campus Derby
It was fun, educational and really cool. Cultural Campus Day – Ormiston Academy, Ilkeston
All the onstage deaths in Shakespeare performed by ‘four of the greatest clowns working in Britain’ Time Out. Directed by Tim Crouch (I, Malvolio), The Complete Deaths will be a solemn, somber and sublimely funny tribute in the 400th year since Shakespeare’s death. For more information visit www.derbytheatre.co.uk See Pricing & How to Book for prices
Morning, afternoon & evening performances
Play Box
Half term workshop aged 9
Thursday 16 – Friday 17 June
Fri 2 Dec 2016 – Sat 7 Jan 2017
Literacy, movement and roleplay
I have learned how to act. I have also learned how to believe so that the audience believes it too.
The Complete Deaths
Alice in Wonderland
Myths and Legends – The Jabberwocky
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Wed 12 Oct, 5pm – 7.30pm Complicité’s Teaching Devising workshop offers new ideas, methods and tools for teachers to take back to their classrooms to inspire students to take ownership of new and more exciting approaches to telling stories. Using exercises from the Complicité rehearsal room, the workshop provides an insight into some of company’s distinctive physical techniques, equipping teachers to support their students in exploring their own theatrical language and creating original drama.
Technical Training and Consultation Work with our professional and friendly technical team to get the best out of your school’s lighting and sound equipment. Be inspired to create exciting design at low cost or get advice on updating your existing kit. Cost: £30 per hour plus travel Date: To suit Theatre or school-based
Derby Theatre's National Theatre Connections Festival Thu 28 April – Sat 7 May For the third year running Derby Theatre will host the National Theatre Connections Festival; with eighteen youth theatres and schools performing it’s going to be our best festival yet!
To join call the Box Office on 01332 593939.
Throughout the festival there will also be a variety of workshops for young people (13 years+), open mic sessions, family activities, a festival food menu and much more.
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See backstage and meet the professionals who work across all the departments. Learn about the broad range of career paths in theatre, experience what our staff do and find out how they became involved in professional theatre work.
Every child got involved – they really enjoyed it. Bennerley Fields Special School
Years 7 – 13 Dates: Please enquire £200 or £75 when you book at least 10 tickets to one of this season’s shows.
For Special Schools Relaxed performance of Alice in Wonderland Thu 5 Jan at 10.15am Relaxed performances are specifically designed to welcome people who will benefit from a more relaxed performance environment, including people with an Autism Spectrum Condition, sensory and communication disorders, or a learning disability. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement and some small changes made to the light and sound effects.
Makes me feel more involved with Derby Theatre and encourages my love of theatre. Youth Theatre Member
£30 per teacher for the whole academic year (3 sessions). Up to 2 places per school. Includes a free ticket to one Derby Theatre produced show a term.
Careers Days
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For more information please see the website.
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For Primary
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For Secondary and Colleges
A great introduction to theatre Spend a day at the theatre and learn new skills. Discover everything from costume and set design to lighting, in an accessible and fun way. See back stage and make your own mini-production to be performed on stage. For KS1 and 2 £200 plus VAT (or £50 if you book 10+ tickets for a show in the season). Please enquire
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Discover Days
All of our workshops can be tailored for Special Educational Needs Schools at Primary or Secondary level.
For more information and to book, contact learning@derbytheatre.co.uk or call the Box Office: 01332 59 39 39 | derbytheatre.co.uk