From the 1990’s MED started to work in school settings, taking Artistic Director Mark Beeson’s passion for script into Moretonhampstead Primary School and encouraging pupils to write their own plays. Further general workshops for young people were undertaken in 1992, and in 1993 an Arts Council grant was secured to assist young people in playwriting. By 1994 a group of young members wrote the community production The Dragon and the Mermaid for MED Theatre. Other key young people’s productions have included, Another Ibrahim in 1997, The Audience in 1999 and The 82 in 2000. The new millennium has sealed the place of young people’s projects at MED, and there has been a steady stream of innovative stage, radio and film productions, integrating drama, visual art, dance and music, such as Dartmoor Rising , Grave Intimations , and the Wild Nights Young Company’s ‘Roots’ play. Since 2006, the introduction of the role of Education Officer continued the expansion of both the in-school and out-of-school education programme through leading a specific education and lifelong learning strand.
MED Theatre's education programme prides itself on taking inspiration for creative work from our local surroundings, the Dartmoor National Park, which we believe has a rich palette for you people to learn from. One young person commented "I love MED... it's a lifechanger."
