Community Arts

During the last term of year 12 at Brit, we take part in a Community project. For us this means working with students from other strands, whom we may never have met before. Many of the projects work with people from the community, some of them visit hospices and schools or drug rehabilitation centres. Our group is slightly different as we don't directly interact with our clients (our community) on a weekly basis. Instead we are in rehearsals for something known as The Ashcroft Show. This year we're rehearsing 'Hamelin' which is a modern version of the well known tale 'The Pied Piper'.

Our audience:

 Our show has been created as a family orientated show. We are performing to children of the ages 7-11 in schools based in Croydon. It's very exciting because many of them will never have been to the theatre before so it's our responsibility to introduce them to the world of theatre and performing.
 It's an incredible opportunity for us, to have that responsibility because the children come from less privileged backgrounds that perhaps some of us have come from, so it's an honour to be able to introduce them to something they can be a part of in the future and may never have known they could.
We are also rehearsing and performing an hour long workshops for many of the children who will see the show for the week following our performance.