P r o j e c t s + C o u r s e s
In December 2000, Riding Lights appointed its first Education Office to help realize Friargate Theatre's potential as a resource to schools in and around York. By 2008 the Education and Youth department had expanded to comprise one full-time and one part-time member of staff as well as a gap-year volunteer and other helper.
 |
|
IN - April 2002
(RL Youth Theatre's first devised production)
|
Riding Lights has long been committed to innovative work with schools across the UK, and our Roughshod companies spend much of their time teaching and performing in schools. We're delighted to have an Education Officer, and to be able to develop relationships with our own local schools.
Riding Lights' first Education project was Love Forty. During the rehearsal period in January 2001 for Roughshod's Love Fifteen - a play about parent/teenager relationships - groups of students from two local secondary schools were invited to observe and contribute to the devising process. The students then worked with their Drama teachers to devise their own plays on the same subject, which were then performed at Friargate Theatre in March, and moderated as part of the students' Drama GCSE coursework.
An ongoing Education programme is now underway, featuring a wide range of projects:
 RIDING LIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE
Riding Lights launched its hugely successful and much-loved Youth Theatre in September 2001. Click here for more details.
THEATRE WORKSHOPS AT FRIARGATE
Short courses for young people, discovering and developing their performance skills.
|
|
|
The Trouble With You - 1999
(Summer Theatre School)
|
PERFORMANCE RELATED PROJECTS
Low-cost group bookings available for productions at Friargate Theatre, including opportunities to meet directors and actors, to have pre- and post-show discussions and to explore the techniques used by a professional theatre company when creating a production.
TEACHING RESOURCES
Materials for use by Drama, English and PSHE teachers, linked to specific productions by Riding Lights, including a range of activities and discussion topics. Compatible with the National Curriculum.
If you are a young person, a parent or a teacher, and would like to know more about any aspect of Riding Lights' Education programme, please contact Kelvin Goodspeed or Sally Maddison on 01904 655317 or e-mail education@rltc.org
|
