MED Theatre Education

Our aim at MED Theatre is to encourage young people to be inspired by their local surroundings and to go on to create original and exciting new pieces of work. We are constantly forming new relationships with schools across the South West, as well as developing out of school projects with local young people. With a new Education Officer MED Theatre are currently engaged in an exciting period of change.

If you would like to know more, or are interested in booking any education projects, please contact our Education Officer, using the email link at the bottom of this page, or call on 01647 441356.

Wild Nights Young Company filming on location

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Teignmouth Community College's gifted and talented pupils wrote, acted and directed in a superb series of short plays when they took part in MED Theatre's Play in a Day workshop.

West Exe Technology College students are coming to Moretonhampstead! Having taken part in the Snow Responses workshop, designed to accompany MED Theatre’s community play Snow, the year 10 students worked on building a character which they have been developing and will bring to a MED audience this term.

Braunton School and Community College are bringing together students from two other schools in north Devon to experience a film-day workshop in June. Watch this space for further details!

Bovey Tracey Primary School students perform the Dartmoor myth of Elfrida using drama, song and dance to tell the tragic story to family, friends and fellow school students. This course was made possible, thanks to the Helen Foundation's input.

In partnership with the launch of the groundbreaking new Dartmoor Resource website (www.dartmoorresource.co.uk) MED Theatre is offering a brand new web and drama based workshop for primary and secondary schools which makes links between the history, ecology, folklore and community of Dartmoor.

Last Term...

Exeter University MA students in Applied Drama formed small "community theatre companies" for a day's workshop when MED Theatre led them through the process of reating a community project.

For Coombeshead Community College's film week in February, MED Theatre worked with twelve year 8 pupils to create a dramatic short film of their own interepretation of Macbeth.

Chagford and Okehampton Primary schools have been part of the Dartmoor Resource project by creating and dramatising their own contemporary Dartmoor myths through exciting shadow puppet shows. Visit www.dartmoorresource.co.uk to see their work.

Over the last two terms MED Theatre has worked with Hatherleigh, Exbourne, Boasley Cross and Northlew Primary Schools. MED Theatre led a series of creative writing courses at the host school Hatherleigh for gifted and talented students in years 3&4 and years 5&6.

There is a film and resource book on the transition to 'big school' available to primary schools: they were created during the project Rumours that MED Theatre worked on with students from Clyst Vale Community College, in the summer term 2008.

MEDIA NEWS! The short film The Children's Castle written and produced by Wild Nights Young Company has been accepted for the View From Here 2008 Talent Show Case.

The Children's Castle.

The performance , 2007

NEW WORKSHOPS!

SNOW RESPONSES

In conjunction with MED Theatre’s community play Snow , sponsored by the Met Office, about the extreme weather conditions of the winter of 1962/63, students will be led in a workshop exploring the themes of snow, past memories, and capturing moments in history through drama. The changing climate in our locality will be investigated, focusing on how people coped with weather conditions in the past and what we would do today.

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