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Forum Theatre
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Thirty Three and a Third Theatre Company is a theatre practice, education and training, production and touring company.
What do we do? Our main theatre practice is Forum Theatre, a method developed in the 1960’s by Augusto Boal, in South America, in which theatre techniques are developed and harnessed to enable groups who are constituent to an issue to practice and play with solutions. Theatre for social change. Augusto Boal is now being nominated for a Nobel Prize for Peace More Forum Theatre Information
This practice is now included in the National Curriculum. We train actors, develop and produce Forum workshops and shows, work in schools, colleges, universities, industry and community with Forum to enable people to develop and practice solutions to issues faced by people.
We work with theatre in many contexts, usually with communities, often self-scripted, often with young people.
We focus on working and developing sustainably, keeping honesty and clarity of work and management high on our agenda of “hows”. Our Actors and workers are accessed from high quality professionals who are working in other arenas and understand and are committed to the opening of doors to dialogue through theatre.
We enable those we work for to become those we work with by offering opportunities to any who take part in the shows or workshops further training and work in Thirty Three and a Third.
Our Actors become sign-posters, building awareness and understandings of the issues and solutions we forum and helping those who are affected by the issues to find help and support.
What we have done
Summer Residential Theatre camp, “Kids and Theatre” (KAT). KAT grew from the question posed by us, parents, “what would we like to see our kids doing over the summer holidays?” The project worked with young people from across the UK to enable them to raise funds for a 2 week residential theatre experience. We have experienced KAT for a few summers now, living and working under canvas in some amazing places around Kent. Building our own kitchens, eating wonderful food, making site-specific theatre and culminating in a show. The young people who first encountered KAT are now facilitating young people themselves. A KAT event is planned for the summer holidays this year.
In the summer of 2004, we ran a Summer Splash event for Rainer, a national charity working primarily with and for young people. 2 weeks of Drama, Dance and Music for 25 young people “at risk” in Folkestone.
In the summer of 2005, we ran a PAYP
(Positive Activities for Young People) Theatre and Film project for
Young People in Shepway. “Make a song and dance about it” ran for 4
weeks in the school summer holiday working to build confidence, feelings
of belonging and doing and culminated in a show of the work (2 short
films, which were entered for a youth film event in Brighton and a “song
and dance”). |
Autumn 2005 saw us working with young people from the Millmead area of Margate to produce a self-scripted pantomime. “When Santa got stuck up the chimney” was a fun-loaded journey where Nursery-rhyme characters tried to release Santa from a particularly narrow chimney before it was too late to deliver the presents!
From January 2006 to September 2006, Thirty Three and a Third, in collaboration with Kent and the Wider World, ran a Forum Theatre course with year 10 Drama students at Brockhill Park Performing Arts College, near Hythe, Kent, which focused on developing a show to enable Global Citizenship Education. This culminated in a Forum Show in the School theatre which was attended by many teachers, facilitators, educators and young people. A training pack and DVD is available.
At the moment, Thirty Three and a
Third are training actors at University College Folkestone in Forum
techniques and practice. We are helping them in the development of a
piece of Forum, around the issues of immigration, to Forum in local
schools. Now, Thirty Three and a Third are back in Brockhill Park Performing Arts College, working with Rebecca Atack, training Year 10 in Forum Theatre skills as part of their curriculum. As a development of this, Thirty Three and a Third are facilitating an after school Youth Forum Theatre Club. The young people are developing pieces which will enable issues specific to young people in the area to be investigated through Forum.
In the summer term this year, Thirty Three and a Third will be working with the “A” level Drama students in their curriculum project of setting up a touring theatre company and touring a piece of theatre. The piece of theatre being a Forum show.
We are in dialogue with Kent County Council to develop a tour of Youth Drama groups across Kent, using Forum workshops to enable Youth Theatre companies to develop Forum as another string to their dramatic bow. Many of the Young People following “A” level Drama already have experience of Forum, having been part of the group who put on the Global Citizenship Training show in 2006. This June saw the culmination of a load of work by Brockhill Youth Forum Theatre Group. We performed a Forum Theatre Show devised by the group at a Youth Safety Conference at the Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone. The Show, called 20%, was devised in response to a request from the Crime and Disorder Reduction team at Shepway District Council. A group of Year 10 GCSE Drama students worked with me to devise the show, which opened the inaugural Youth Safety Conference on 18th June 2008. With an audience of more than
500 young people and various associated adults in the Leas Cliff Hall it
was a big ask! Everyone did really well and many young people came on
stage to Forum solutions to many of the issues facing young people in
our community today. I will post a more comprehensive report when the
film is edited and available on this site. |
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