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iceandfire create compelling theatre that makes real and relevant the impact of human rights issues on our everyday lives.
High quality production is supported by innovative education, outreach and participation.
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Education
"Harnessing the power of our own stories to understand the other and create new perspectives."
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Workshops
iceandfire have worked with schools, colleges and universities across the UK to deepen understanding of our work and to enable students to develop personal engagement with the stories that we tell.
All our productions have accompanying resource packs and workshops run by the actors who are performing in our plays. Students get the opportunity to see high quality performance before working directly with creative practitioners to make their own pieces.
We also run stand alone workshops responding to the needs of educational establishments and their students. In the past this has included creative writing workshops, devised drama and text based work.
"The whole experience proved a very positive one for our students and the students took a lot out of it. This was in terms of the messages about the plight of asylum seekers as well as the process of making theatre. The workshop proved extremely successful. The students loved it and really enjoyed exploring the play in more depth."
Richard Demby, Whalley Range High School
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Darfur House students
Studious Son (Tung Nguyen)
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Plays
Separated
by Sara Masters
iceandfire's first play for young people, Separated emerged from a series of drama workshops run with young refugees and unaccompanied minors.
Year 11. GCSEs. Then what? Daniel's from London (but his dad's from Ghana), Amanullah's from Afghanistan (but he lives in London). They're both 15 and that's where the similarity ends. Or is it? Once they start putting things together they realise that just because they're not the same doesn't mean they're different.
The play has been touring London secondary schools since Spring 2007 and has been seen by over 3000 students. The aim of the project is to encourage participants to use their own emotions to empathise with and understand the refugee experience and cope with their own forthcoming transitions. An Education resource pack and workshop accompanies the piece to support Citizenship teachers and enhance their Citizenship provision. We are currently hoping to tour the play again in November/December 2008.
"Thought this piece would be great for my boys who really need to understand these issues a lot more than they do at the moment! It was a fantastic experience for the students, a very moving piece, they responded really well, workshop really made them think and engage with the piece even more."
Dan Lyndon, Henry Compton School
This project has been generously supported by the the The Ernest Cook Trust, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Jack Petchey Foundation and The John Thaw Foundation.
Separated is also being used as part of an innovative training package for Fostering Agencies.
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Separated
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