Four groups of students create performance pieces and workshop sessions in secondary schools. A fifth group creates a piece as part of a conference for students of UEA’s Centre for Interprofessional Practice, School of Medicine at the John Innes Institute. In each case they are required to interact with students and teachers in the ‘client’ organisation and deliver not merely a performance but also aspects of pedagogic process which draw on relevant drama skills in order to assist the receivers to engage in new ways with the tasks they are addressing.

The Outreach Projects for 2010/11 are:

GCSE/year 10

Norwich City Academy

Domestic Violence: finding ways to help pupils understand and address issues through group and practical methods and creating an interactive and interrogative piece which opens up key questions.

A level

Notre Dame High School

Assisting students preparing for A level English to engage with extreme experiences mediated by Webster’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, which will also be used to create an innovative piece of devised theatre.

The Hewett School

Working with Drama staff to explore, both practically and intellectually, key issues in Shakespeare’s Richard III in the context of staging and directing methodology, which will also be exemplified in the performance piece.

City of Norwich School

Creating a range of practical ways to approach and understand Brecht in performance, in order to illuminate the relationship between dramatic theory and practice and to demonstrate it in their performance piece.

School of Medicine

Creating a performance for a conference on Interprofessional Practice which addresses aspects of communication between different stakeholders in the NHS.