Tuesday 7th December

Today we were told we were going to start a new topic. This topic was Theatre in Education. I didn’t know very much about this so the whole class did some research in to it and found that Theatre in Education is when a company travel around, performing pieces of theatre, informing people about issues or problems around them.

I researched further into a company called “Big Wheel” whose main target audience is primary school children. They like to get children involved by inventing a number of lively workshops and retelling stories for a younger audience. Big wheel is made up of a core team of four actors/actresses and are based on Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell. Here is a web address to the big wheel website. I really enjoyed looking around and reading lots of interesting information about their style of work.

http://www.bigwheel.org.uk/page/1/Home

Big Wheel started in 1984 by a group of students from Oxford University doing fairly serious fringe theatre. They then moved into performing workshops for schools, developing into what we know today. They regularly tour the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Austria and parts of Germany, and have been doing this since the mid eighties.

Before the lesson ended Miss Woffinden set our homework, to research a topic of our choice that would make a good/interesting piece of Theatre in Education for teenagers. I didn’t really know where to start with this so I did some research on Google and found a useful website with a list of 10 different issues for teenagers,

·         Smoking

·         Drinking

·         Drugs

·         Body image

·         Pregnancy

·         Abuse

·         Suicide

·         Depression

·         School work

·         Weight

So I got to work on my chosen subject Body Image.