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December 2006

2006 was one of our most successful years to date...

It saw two National Tours - The Bomb and Gogo and a National New Writing Festival – The Lockpickers’ Ball – all a first for the company and all a resounding success. This work gained the company TMA award nominations and won Joe Sumsion, Artistic Director a Writers Guild, New Writing Encouragement award for The Bomb.

The core team of 8 continues to grow with the appointment of Nina Hajiyianni as Associate Director and Jake Roney as General Manager / Deputy Chief Exec.

2007 looks bright, kicking off with a writing project working with young people who run away and professional actors who are keen to write.

This is closely followed by the development of the next South African collaboration with Vulavulani, which will see Sizwe Vilakazi develop his own one man show.

A new play has also been commissioned – Fly Away Peter for a schools tour in the autumn followed by plans for re-tours of The Bomb and Tselane’s Song…watch this space! With Joe joining the Board of ITC, this strengthens the company’s position to build on this success for the future.

November 2006

Are you an actor who has experience of making theatre for young people...? Do you want to write…?

Action Transport Theatre Company is a new writing company making new plays for young audiences.

Increasingly, we are making theatre inspired by real people and real events (please see www.actiontransporttheatre.co.uk/thebomb for more details), and ‘Night Train’ will be based on the real experiences and stories of young people who have run away.

‘Night Train’ is a new play, yet to be written, possibly written by you.

We are looking for 4 excellent actors who want to write.

This is an opportunity for the writer in you to research, create, structure and deliver a new script.

This is also an opportunity for the actor in you to rehearse and perform it.

Auditions /Interviews –
Monday 4th December and Tuesday 5th December 2006

Writing Development Weeks – 29th January – 9th February 2006

Rehearsing – 23rd April – 8th May 2006

Touring – 9th – 19th May 2006

Director – Joe Sumsion

Dramaturg/Writer support – Kevin Dyer

Writing Contract – £840 Fee

+ Relocation of £73.80 per week where applicable (+ travel reimbursed to

equivalent of return train ticket at beginning and end of contract)

Acting Contract – ITC/Equity small-scale touring, £350 per week + relocation of £73.80 where applicable.

(+ travel reimbursed to equivalent of return train ticket at beginning and end of contract)

We believe that the balance and mix of this new team is crucial to making this writing experiment successful.

Please send your Acting CV, with a short covering letter explaining your interest in writing, and experience you could bring to this project.

Please send submissions by Monday 27th November to:

Louie Ingham
Projects Manager
Action Transport Theatre Company
Whitby Hall
Stanney Lane
Ellesmere Port
CH65 9AE

Submissions by post only – no emails or telephone calls.

Winner – Writers’ Guild, New Writing Encouragement Award, Joe Sumsion for The Bomb, October 2006

TMA Awards Nominee – Best Actor, Paul Dodds for Ned Driscoll, The Bomb, October 2006

TMA Awards Nominee – Best Director, Joe Sumsion, The Bomb, October 2006

‘The incredibly gifted Vulavulani Company of Soweto and Action Transport Theatre of the UK explode onto the beautiful Unicorn stage with enough talent, energy and charisma to fill the Albert Hall.’

Emma Thompson

Current Press Reviews - October 2006

The Bomb - The Guardain Review

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October 2006

An explosion of new writing theatre from the North West

Based in Ellesmere Port , Action Transport Theatre Company is pioneering a new approach to writing brilliant theatre for and by young people. This autumn sees three major projects come to fruition, and the company’s Artistic Director, Joe Sumsion, has just received a prestigious New Writing Encouragement Award from the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain . Joe said:

I’m delighted and honoured to receive a Theatre Writing Encouragement Award. For some time now we have been developing Action Transport into a new writing centre – a place for production, R and D and learning. We try to create a happy, productive working environment in which writers can excel – and I certainly think Kevin Dyer has done this with The Bomb.

The Bomb tours to theatres nationally this autumn (details below) and asks the question, “Could you meet the man who killed your father?” It is inspired by Jo Berry, whose father Sir Anthony Berry was killed in the 1984 Brighton bomb, and Patrick Magee, the man who planted the bomb. In 2000 they met for the first time.

Jo and Pat worked closely with Kevin Dyer at the research stage, then with the actors during rehearsals. The resulting production is having a profound effect on those who see it, inspiring young and adult audiences alike. Kevin says:

People come to this play with various degrees of knowledge of the history and the people it is based on. I have combined my theatrical imagination with real words used by real people, creating a fiction based upon fact. It is both a riveting piece of narrative theatre and a record of what I believe to be a significant event in modern times.

The Bomb played as part of a double bill with The Mask; a new play at the centre of the company’s R and D work, at the Chester Gateway and sold out over two nights.

Working in association with Chester Gateway, and supported by Shell UK and The Granada Foundation, The Mask follows the success of the collectively written The Leatherboy at The Gateway in autumn 2004.

Jake would prefer life as a lion, soaking up the Serengeti sun in the African savannah.

Sally, a girl not interested in lions, just wants to be able to speak to the special man she lost.

Their stories are at the heart of this brand new play; an experiment in collective playwriting involving a new wave of seventeen young and emerging writers from across the North West .

The six month process of writing this play has offered an inspiring experience for the aspiring writers. Supported by professional writer Kevin Dyer and Louie Ingham (Projects Manager, Action Transport Theatre), they have been by guided through every aspect of writing a play.

Meeting on a monthly basis at Whitby Hall, Ellesmere Port, as well as working remotely by email, getting together in coffee shops, emailing from far reached corners of the world, texting ideas from their holiday tents in France and drafting and redrafting, the young writers have been sewing together a story that reflects their ideas, and their imaginations. The result is an extraordinary play about two ordinary people. An original, funny play presenting a touching, life-changing double act that has never been seen before.

The Mask and The Bomb played last week in Liverpool at the first-of-its-kind new writing festival The Lockpickers' Ball, which develops Action Transport’s third stand of work – learning.

Between 4 th- 6 th October the company brought to Liverpool many of the country’s leading companies and writers in a festival on the craft of writing outstanding new plays. Excellent companies – like Travelling Light, Company of Angels, en masse – and great writers – Fin Kennedy, Oladipo Agboluaje, Charles Way – came together to share their work and their processes, to give away their secrets.

Jude Merrill , Artistic Producer from Travelling Light Theatre Company said:

"Travelling Light are delighted to be asked to present a seminar looking at the way we created our most recent production, Mother Savage. The Festival is a great opportunity for young people's theatre practitioners to meet and share their ideas about the process of making quality theatre.”

Jo Berry, Pat Magee and The Autumn 2006 Cast of The Bomb

The Bomb - Guardian Review

Maritime, Liverpool

Lyn Gardner
Tuesday October 10, 2006
The Guardian

When teenager Lizzie's dad is killed in a terrorist bombing, she lives with the aftermath of the explosion ringing in her ears, head and heart. So scarred is she, it is as if she was there when the Semtex exploded. Twenty years later, and with a teenage daughter of her own, Lizzie gets the opportunity to meet Ned, the man who placed the bomb that killed her father.

Kevin Dyer's play was inspired by the remarkable story of Jo Berry, whose father died in the Brighton bombing, and Pat Magee, the former IRA activist responsible for placing the bomb, and their attempts to find forgiveness and friendship, ultimately working together for peace. It's a timely, multi-faceted work, and an emotionally explosive piece of drama.

Dyer's play has its rough and ready moments, and it doesn't quite succeed in embedding Lizzie's relationship with her daughter convincingly into the map of the drama. But it also has a huge amount going for it, including a wonderful ability to dramatise the internal, and an understanding that Lizzie must learn to relinquish victimhood as much as Ned must relinquish violence. Some of Lizzie's father's final words to his daughter are: "If you're in deep water, and somebody offers to help, let them pull you out." Good advice.

It is the personal rather than the political that gets the upper hand, but Dyer does give Ned an opportunity to explain why he did what he did, and the play manages to move you emotionally as well as making you consider issues of justice and whether violence can be justified.

Alison Heffernan's clever tilted set, covered with bomb debris and that of everyday life, strongly suggests lives displaced by an act of violence. And Joe Sumsion's production offers some strong images as it edges towards the idea that we must free ourselves of the past in order to live fully in the present.

August 2006

New Writing Award for Action Transport!

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain have just announced the winners of their second annual awards for the encouragement of new writing, and Joe Sumsion, Artistic Director of Action Transport Theatre is one of the four winners.

Members of The Writers Guild were asked to nominate anyone in any capacity who had given them an exceptional experience in new writing. Kevin Dyer, the Associate Writer of Action Transport Theatre, nominated Joe and commented;

‘I went to Joe with a fragment of an idea – to write the story of Jo Berry whose father was killed in the Brighton Bomb. Joe encouraged me to write the play. More than that he wanted me to write MY play. He funded my research, set up sessions with actors, paid for my visits to meet Jo Berry and to meet Pat Magee the IRA man who planted the bomb. Now that the show is on tour I can look back on a wholly positive, creative journey – resulting in a play with extremely high production values. Joe believes in new writing, and believed in me.’

This award is very timely in that Kevin’s play ‘The Bomb’ goes on a national tour this autumn – for full tour dates please go to http://www.actiontransporttheatre.co.uk/tour.php

Action Transport is also producing a festival, The Lockpickers’ Ball which will explore the craft of writing new plays, for, by and with young people. Based in Liverpool in October 2006, this festival is for over 80 delegates consisting of new and emerging writers, professional and established writers and professional theatre makers who are interesting in unpicking the secrets of creating fantastic new work for young audiences.

Joe’s response to winning his award was that;

I’m delighted and honoured to receive a Theatre Writing Encouragement Award. For some time now we have been developing Action Transport into a place where writers (and other creative artists) can confidently bring their ideas. We try to create a happy, productive working environment in which writers can excel – and I certainly think that Kevin has done this with The Bomb. I loved working on the play as both commissioner and director.

Other winners include:

· The Watford Palace Theatre (Joyce Branagh, Lawrence Till and Mary Caw), nominated by both Sarah Daniels and Ian Kershaw. ‘Joyce is a fantastic dramaturg and working on the script with her before the play was a real delight. She has an ability to intuit what one intended to say but didn’t quite achieve and a way of enabling the writer to uncover this. Once the play was in rehearsal I felt not only that I was very welcome in the room, but actually asked to be there and my opinion sought in a really open and non-defensive manner. In short, this was one of the happiest and best experiences of my working life to date’ (Sarah Daniels) ‘My play was produced at Watford earlier this year and it was not only a new play but a new play by a new writer. Lawrence Till read my play and rang me to tell me he wanted to put it on at Watford – definition of Exceptional Encouragement! I was made to feel such a part of the process that there was never any doubt, worry or anxiety that the play had been hijacked by someone else. The play’s the thing, the story’s the play and the Palace Theatre Watford pulled out all the stops to make sure the story was told as clearly as possible’. (Ian Kershaw)

· Claire Malcolm, Director, and Anna Summerford, Deputy Director, New Writing North, nominated by Carina Rodney. ‘Claire commissioned my play and has been instrumental in developing it from a pre first draft stage with supportive and creative mentoring. She will be producing the play and has organised a tour which involves regional theatres acting as co-producers rather than hosts, putting individual packages in place to benefit amateur writers and actors associated with these companies. In response to a lack of opportunities and funding for new playwrights in the region, Claire has also launched the EMERGE scheme. Anna has worked tirelessly to raise funding for the new playwrights project as well as working on the production side of my play.’

· Gwenda Hughes, currently Artistic Director of the New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle under Lyme, nominated by Lisa Evans. ‘Throughout her career, at Theatre Centre, Watford Palace, Birmingham Rep and with many freelance companies, she has championed, encouraged and enabled new writing. She is a formidable play doctor and not only directs many new plays but facilitates workshops, attends writer’s meetings and in my long history of working with her, always makes a play better than when it arrives at her desk but leaves the writer feeling it was all their idea all along. She has a gift of understanding what it is you are trying to say and enabling you to say it in your own voice. If any writer gets the opportunity to work with her, they should seize it with both hands and not let go.’

July 2006

Local Young actors bring The Universe to Whitby Hall

How do you write a play about black holes, new planets, the future of mankind, time, space, love and hate? Two Ellesmere Port based writers, Heather McGaw and John Moorhouse, have been doing just this and their jointly written play, “The Universal” will be performed by Action Transport Senior Youth Theatre this week at Whitby Hall Studio Theatre in Ellesmere Port.

Since January of this year, Shell have sponsored Action Transports Senior Youth Theatre and Action Transport Writers, whom John and Heather are members of, to take part in this experiment in creating new processes of writing plays for, by and with young people.

One of the Writers, Heather McGaw says

“Every venture with Action Transport Theatre has taught me so much, and this has been no exception. This has been a wonderful, creative experience and I’m proud to say I have been a part of this fantastic production.”

In June, the final rehearsal draft of the script was delivered and rehearsals kicked in – the 12 performers and 2 writers have dedicated their time, and even in this heat, they have given all their energy, commitment and creativity to the rehearsals of their new play.

Louie Ingham, Projects Manager & Senior Youth Theatre Director says

“We were keen to create a brand new play that would reflect the thoughts and ideas of both our writers and performers, a new play created from the very start by them.

As a new writing theatre company for young people, we have taken the ideas of local young people to another level and made a challenging, thrilling new play – whilst having a lot of fun along the way!”

“The Universal” plays at Whitby Hall Studio Theatre for three performances (Monday 10 th 7:30pm, Tuesday 11 th 7:30pm and Wednesday 12 th for a special early evening show at 4:30pm) and promises to be a thrilling adventure about survival, hope and a new world.

The company will then pack their sleeping bags, tents, costumes and energy into a minibus and hot foot it down to Epping Forest, where they will perform at the national, Big Youth Theatre Festival!

If you are keen to join Action Transport’s Youth Theatre and are between 11-18 years old, there is a taster session on Tuesday 18 th July between 4-5pm at Whitby Hall Studio Theatre, Ellesmere Port. Call 0151 357 2120 to register your interest.

Shell are also sponsoring the next Action Transport Young Writers play “Fragments” which will be performed at the Chester Gateway Theatre on 6 th and 7 th October 2006. This will be part of The Lockpickers Ball Festival which is all about revealing the secrets of creating fantastic new plays for, by and with young people. For more information – www.thelockpickersball.info

For more information, and to find out the answers to the Universe and book tickets please call Box Office: 0151 357 2120. Adults £4 Concessions £2.50

Suitable for 11 years +

June 2006

Great response to new South African show at the Unicorn

Celebrating South African stories, song and dance with a vitality and energy which is infectious, Tselane’s Song and Gogo for the 5-11 age range and their families opened last week at The Unicorn Theatre, London to a fantastic response…

"Wonderful! As a big child myself (22), I was gripped and emotionally drawn into the characters lives."

"I can’t think of anything like it!"

"Nice music, simple story, lovely actors."

"Excellent – vibrant and clever."

"Lively, strong and entertaining."

"Funny and fantastic."

"Absolutely brilliant!"

"Unicorn to me is the highlight of London theatre – it has become the one thing I must do with every visit to London I make from overseas. Thank you for raising the bar of theatre for young people worldwide."

"Every production I’ve seen here has been creative, innovative and different. My deepest respect. "

Last chance to catch the two shows – Gogo and Tselane’s Song – ends Sunday 25 th June.

2 for 1 offer on Saturday 24 th June!

Performance Dates remaining:

Tuesday 20 th June – Gogo 1.30pm

Wednesday 21 st June – Gogo 10.15am & 1.30pm

Thursday 22 nd June – Gogo 10.15am

Friday 23 rd June – Tselane’s Song 7pm

Saturday 24 th June – Tselane’s Song 2.30pm & Gogo 7pm

Sunday 25 th June - Gogo 2.30pm

For further information, to request tickets, photography or to arrange an interview please contact Jess Egan, Promotions and Marketing Manager, at Action Transport on 0151 357 2120/ 07989 856 505 or jess@actiontransporttheatre.co.uk

June 2006

Gogo opens in London!

Celebrating South African stories, song and dance with a vitality and energy which is infectious, Tselane’s Song and Gogo for the 5-11 age range and their families are playing at the Unicorn Theatre, London between 14 th-25 th June 2006.

Following the award winning success of Dumisani’s Drum; the first international co-production in 2002, Action Transport Theatre (UK) and Vulavulani Theatre Company (South Africa) continue to work in partnership to create shows which are a celebration of our cultures and based on total equality.

“What magic! Surprising, thrilling, challenging, wonderful. Dumisani’s Drum was all that and more – inspirational! I loved it.” Head Teacher, Cheshire Primary School.

Rehearsals for both Gogo – meaning Grandmother in Zulu – and Tselane’s Song – which has 3 sell out tours behind it - took place in South Africa, allowing the authenticity of both traditional and modern life over in Soweto to be recreated within the shows.

Artistic Director of Action Transport, and Director of both shows, Joe Sumsion quotes from his diary whilst there:

“The play we are making with Vulavulani is a work of art with integrity; a unique reflection of South Africa at a particular point in its history. We know too that the play is an expression of our two companies, and this will have a universal resonance and value, as our story seems to be connecting into fundamental experiences of many people and cultures.”

The opening of Gogo this Friday 16 th June co-insides with the 30 th anniversary of the Soweto uprisings. Fikekhale Ntinti Dlalisa, Artistic Directorof Vulavulani Theatre Company, and performer in the shows feels this is especially poignant and quotes from the Youth Activist, Kgotfo Seatlolo;

“Freedom is a noble cause in which I am prepared to die if I can’t live to attain it ”. Ntinti goes on to say;

“The consequences of the Soweto revolt and demonstrations are now honoured through unity and diversity. I feel honoured to share our work with the international world through theatre and freedom of expression”

Vulavulani Theatre Company is Ntinti’s own inception, and he is passionate about being the first professional children and young people’s theatre company from Soweto. He is fulfilling his life’s ambition by sharing Tselane’s Song and Gogo with different cultures.

An exciting development within the cast for both shows is Naomi Cortes, from London who will be playing the role of the classic Gogo (Grandmother) in both plays. The story of Gogo is a funny and moving family adventure for 7-11 year olds and grandparents everywhere, told with live music and dance, a journey into the jungle – and a deadly snake bite!

Performance Dates

Wednesday 14 th June – Tselane’s Song 10.15am & 1.30pm

Thursday 15 th June – Tselane’s Song 10.15am & 1.30pm

Friday 16 th June – Gogo 7pm

Saturday 17 th June – Gogo 2.30pm & Tselane’s Song 7pm

Sunday 18 th June – Tselane’s Song 2.30pm

Tuesday 20 th June – Gogo 1.30pm

Wednesday 21 st June – Gogo 10.15am & 1.30pm

Thursday 22 nd June – Gogo 10.15am

Friday 23 rd June – Tselane’s Song 7pm

Saturday 24 th June – Tselane’s Song 2.30pm & Gogo 7pm

Sunday 25 th June - Gogo 2.30pm

Box Office -08700 534 534
The Unicorn, Tooley Street, London. SE1 2HZ

There is a 2 for 1 ticket offer on Saturday 17 th June and Saturday 24 th June giving you the chance to see both Tselane’s Song and Gogo!

May 2006

Joe Sumsion's director's diary from when he was in South Africa for the first two weeks of rehearsals for Tselane's Song and Gogo...

Gogo and Tselane’s Song Rehearsals - South Africa

Day 1 – Monday 24 th April 2006.

We are here, working happily in Orlando Communal Hall, Soweto. Our two new actresses to join the team - Eva from Johannesburg and Naomi from the East End of London - seem to be settling in well – Naomi has just got through a rigourous dance session with Thabang – choreogragher for both shows, determined to keep the British flag flying. Good on her. Eva looks to be a talented professional with charm, a good voice and great dancing – so she’s just right for Tselane. The new script for Tselane Song has landed very well – good on you Kevin (Action Transport’s Associate Writer).

We will work on Tselane Mon-Wed, then day off Thursday, trip Friday to Sunday, day off Monday, Gogo next Tuesday to Thursday.

Plans have also been made for a trip to the countryside. On Friday we will go off to Kwa Zulu Natal and stay in huts by the river for 2 days (David and Sylvia – our Board Members are in alternative accommodation!)

Hope all goes well in Ellesmere Port.

Joe

Day 2 – Tuesday 25 th April

Hello all. I felt strongly today something which I think we all know - that what we are doing with Vulavulani Theatre Company is an ambitious, special partnership, and whilst some of us are here and some are in Ellesmere Port, we should all have a sense of the progress and excitement of the work..

So………

Today was an excellent day – real progress within the group and through the play. We worked through the first half of Tselane’s Song, seeing particularly what Eva brings to Tselane and Naomi to Gogo and Inyanga. Many highlights, including the whole company opening Louie and Mark’s fantastic good luck card together, but the best by far was the first time we ran the Inyanga scene.

Naomi had done some basic work on the movements of the character – a sort of cross between a wise woman, healer and magician. Naomi today came on and delivered a powerful, extraordinary first go. Ntinti was accompanying on the drum, Sizwe acting with her and Eva watching, and all three of their faces were fantastic – a mixture of smiles, wonder and amazement. All three are generous and supportive but also, I sense, have understandable doubts about how we Brits will represent aspects of their culture. What they saw today was a talented actress jumping in, going for it with integrity and force. We are all of us working to build a play and a company of combined strengths, and this clearly happened today. A great moment – a turning point.

Ntinti and I are working well together, and Sizwe is energised, excited and working well within the team. Long may all this continue. Sylvia has taken some great photos and David is oiling the wheels of everything with aplomb.

So, disaster may well be around the corner but we haven’t met it yet.

At the end of rehearsals we went to a newly opened restaurant come jazz bar come B and B in Soweto. A jazz quartet of 13 year-olds played, and soon this turned into a jam session with Booysie (our guide and driver) on the piano, Eva singing (and dancing with, amongst others, Naomi (Jamaican), Sizwe (Zulu) and me (Dad dancing). A great do.

Hope all goes well back at the ranch.

Joe

Day 3 – Wednesday 25 th -

Hi all – hope all goes well.

Today was a challenging but successful day. Ntinti had organised for Chauke (voice) and Mandla (drums) to come in and work with us, and they were joined by Moses (Chauke’s boss), and we were joined by visiting children and a pigeon who lives in the roof of the hall. The focus for the day was working musical sections of Tselane’s Song, including finding replacements for any recorded sound, which we mostly did.

Ntinti and I found it difficult to manage so many people’s contributions and the hour before lunch was one of those `get me out of here’ experiences not uncommon in rehearsal rooms. But with a bit more planning over lunch we all did some great work in the afternoon. With an additional performer and more time we are able to bring in much more music, mainly drumming, into the show, and more singing, sometimes with the whole company.

The show is getting bigger, fuller and will really benefit from a bigger stage. I think it is going to be very good and we must be sure to push it as well as Gogo in London. The shows will be very different stylistically and we should be excited about this – a proper double bill.

Day 4

A tour of Soweto, all new for Naomi but some familiar faces for Joe, David and Sylvia. Some thoughts from today…

Touring in South Africa - our partnership is based on the principle of creating plays jointly which can (and do) play in both countries. Two versions of Dumisani’s Drum have played in South Africa but Tselane’s Song hasn’t (though this will be the 4 th time in UK) and obviously Gogo hasn’t. I will talk to Ntinti about this – my take on this would be to decide that, in principle, we wish to tour either Tselane’s Song or Gogo or both to South Africa and also if possible internationally to other countries.

If this is agreed, we should make maximum use of the upcoming tour specifically the London gigs. We should, attached to our general pushing of tickets, work up a list of people or organisations who could be help us realise our ambitions. We might want also to put in that category producing/presenting theatres who might want to mount one or both shows for an extended run, which could be part of an international tour.

Maybe no emails for a bit now as we go off to the country –I am looking forward to a genuinely rural, roughing it experience (so have packed a quarter bottle of brandy on the sly, just in case).

Keep cool in the heat of England – it’s a bit chilly here.

Joe

Days 5, 6 and 7 in the country, in Kwa Zulu Natal

Hello all, and hope you had a good bank holiday weekend.

So, the last 48 hours have been spent living in very rural village close to the mountains – no electricity or running water, life lived as in the past. In the following order we:

Watched twenty of the village women doing traditional Zulu dance in the open-air, slamming their feet down onto the clay
Sat in a very smoky ceremonial hut (cow dung floor, thatched roof, fire burning in the middle with no chimney) listening to an old Gogo telling her stories
Ate a snack tea with the extended family, with Naomi leading singing afterwards (Cumbela Cumbela Cumbela Vista, delighting the young washer-uppers in the kitchen who were dancing along)
Slept in the then not-so-smokey hut (Joe, Ntinti, Sizwe)
Got up at dawn and walked for 2 hours up the mountain (Joe, Ntinti and Sizwe), watching the sun come up and walking with six or eight girls and a Gogo who were going to chop wood – a really delightful interaction, with everyone enjoying the walk
Milked a stroppy cow
Got stuck into handling cow dung, Eva and Naomi then learning to do the floor under the strict instructions of another Gogo
Met the whistling Sangoma, a sort of junior Inyanga, who it turns out is one of a fourteen strong union of sangomas who meet once a month in the village (wouldn’t it be great to be fly on the wall in that meeting)
Had lunch by the river
Met the trance sangoma
Joined in a wedding, the men squatting on one side of the road and the women the other, eating a slaughtered cow and drinking the local brew (the name of which escapes me now)
Slept again
Walked to the mountain again, then the river
Naomi taking sweeping lessons, learning to keep it `nice and low’
Watched as it is done .
Read the play with the chickens
Walked for 90 minutes, at the Gogo’s suggestion, through a long grassed valley to see two new-born calves, who it turned out were actually a year old.

Just fantastic. David and I reflected on the number of “I never dreamt that I’d do this in my life” moments we had. Not that I’d want to live there – as we drove off Sizwe said to David “thank goodness we are going!”

So back to the read-through. We now know that the play we are making with Vulavulani is a work of art with integrity, a unique reflection of South Africa at a particular point in its history. We know too that the play is an expression of our two companies – neither Vuluvulani nor Action Transport could have made it alone. And we believe this experiment will have a universal resonance and value, as our story seems to be connecting into fundamental experiences of many people and cultures.

This is exciting stuff, of which we should all be proud of the part we are playing. We would not be able to attempt this but for the work we have all put into the partnership between the 2 companies.

That’s all for now – more anon.

Joe

Joe Sumsion
Co-Director – Tselane’s Song and Gogo
Artistic Director – Action Transport

April 2006

Fragments...

On Friday night a team of young writers from across Cheshire came together for the very first time to put together the fragments, the bits and pieces and the starting blocks for a brand new play.

The play created will be inspired by Action Transport’s latest touring production The Bomb and will be performed at the Chester Gateway in October 2006.

The evenings events took place at Chester Gateway Theatre led by Louie Ingham and Kevin Dyer – the New Writing Team at Action Transport Theatre.

Starting with people standing underneath a wellie, an apple and a plastic spoon, all suspended from the lighting ceiling, they may have wondered what this had to do with writing?

Louie Ingham, Projects Manager at Action Transport explains:

Writing a play is a journey in itself.An object has a life, and a journey of it’s own – The watch around your wrist, or the jumper you are wearing all have a story – This story might include many people – you, as the person wearing it, of the people who gave it to you, owned it, inherited it, made it or bought it. When we start to create stories these people become characters of this journey…

From the many different objects hung from the studio ceiling, writers started to bring together the reality of the object together with their imagination and creativity…and in only a short time, on a Friday night in Chester, came new beginnings of new plays.

From a Wellington boot comes stories of two brothers, a park and a muddy day in leather pumps……From a football comes the story of a young boy, who’s recently found himself in heaven playing football against George Best, and from a knotted piece of rope comes the story of a ship setting sail on choppy seas with drunken revelers…..

What happen’s next?

The writers will become a new team set to create Action Transport Theatre’s next new play.

Working with Kevin Dyer and Louie Ingham, they will come together one or twice a month over the next six months to work up a story, to create dialogue, scenes and characters.

Were you there?

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Couldn’t make Friday’s session but want to be part of this team of writers?

First of all, don’t panic!

We’re right at the start of this creative journey, and there’s still time for you to get involved.

Drop an email to Louie at louie@Actiontransporttheatre.co.uk, or give her a call on the office number, 0151 357 2120 to have a chat and to let her know that you’d like to come along to the next session.

The next session is on ( Click Here... )

You do not need to have written before, just have an enthusiasm for writing, being creative and for being part of a team.

March 2006

Shell’s vital support for Local Young Actors and Young Writers.

Shell UK and local theatre company Action Transport are thrilled to announce the next stage of their fruitful partnership; allowing creative young people in Ellesmere Port access to youth theatre and young writing groups.

The generous investment from Shell UK will provide numerous benefits to over 100 young people currently involved in Action Transport Youth Theatre or equally interested in writing Action Transport’s next play!

Rachel Strefford, Public Affairs Assistant from Shell UK – pictured with the Junior Youth Theatre cast on the opening night of their production The Miracle – is confident that the partnership with Action Transport will continue to provide benefits locally to young people in the long term -

“We are once again very pleased to be supporting Action Transport, who continue to produce fantastic opportunities creatively for the young people of Ellesmere Port, Chester and beyond”

Shell’s support spreads further a field next week as Action Transport in association with Chester Gateway are holding a Unique Writing Event. Action Transport are currently looking for young people aged between 14-25 to be part of the team that writes Action Transport’s next play and are keen to encourage anyone who is interested to attend the following session:

Friday 7 th April 2006

7pm – 9:30pm Chester Gateway Studio

…you don’t need to have written a play before – just bring a pen!

Tickets are Free (1 st come 1 st served). To book your place call Chester Gateway Box Office 01244 340 392

FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE

The play created will be inspired by Action Transport’s latest touring production The Bomb and will be performed at the Chester Gateway Theatre in October 2006.

February 2006

The Bomb opened last Tuesday night to a sold out audience and has sparked a fantastic response...

Photos by Sammyco "An emotional journey, challenging, thought provoking and inspiring throughout"

"A piece of theatre that must be seen and shared"

"A powerful piece of theatre that will make myself reflect on the relationships I have and to go away and think upon the 'inheritance' I’ve been passed over the years"

"Really powerful. Enjoyed myself immensely and found I actually felt sympathy and a liking for “Ned” the bomber – which surprised me"

Photos by Sammyco "An emotional journey, challenging, thought provoking and inspiring throughout. A piece of theatre that must be seen and shared"

"It was fantastic! Good luck!"

Photos by Sammyco "An incredibly thought provoking and moving experience. Thank you"

"A brilliant emotional journey! The best seen"

"Stunning! Visually and emotionally arresting!"

There are two opportunities to see the show next week in the North West :

Tuesday 7th February
The Brindley, Runcorn. Followed by a talkback led by Kevin Dyer – the writer, alongside the actors at 8.30-9pm. 7.30pm. Box Office 0151 907 8360 http://www.thebrindley.org.uk/

Wednesday 8th February
The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama –John Thaw Drama Studio, University of Manchester.7pm. Box Office 0161 275 8951 - Followed by after show talk back led by Joe Sumsion, the Director, with Jo Berry and the actors. 8.10-9.10pm
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre/mhceventspage.php?eventid=128

There is also a performance at the end of the tour you may be interested in;

Friday 17th March
The Performance Centre, Bretton Hall Campus, University of Leeds
7pm. Box Office – 0113 343 9246.

January 2006

Would you meet the man
who killed your father?

Yes, said Jo Berry, the woman who has inspired The Bomb, a new production from Action Transport Theatre touring in February and March 2006. Jo’s father, Sir Anthony Berry, was killed in the 1984 Brighton bomb; in 2000 she met Patrick Magee, the man who planted it and they have since become friends.

Further information and a Full press pack available here.

The Bomb, written by Kevin Dyer is a fascinating and moving story which journeys into the minds of two extraordinary characters. You experience at close quarters what it is like to be in the midst of a bomb blast – but most surprising of all is the picture of hope that emerges.

The play will tour to schools, universities and theatres, with many thousands of young people seeing The Bomb as part of their formal education; reviewing it, studying the published script and questioning their own morality and beliefs. A truly first class experience of professional theatre on their doorstep. Some students will even have the opportunity to attend follow-up workshops with the director, the writer, and Jo Berry herself.

In September & October 2006, the production will tour to theatres nationally and form the centre-piece of The Lockpickers’ Ball, a new plays festival in Liverpool designed to share the secrets of writing outstanding plays for, by and with young people.

“The play explores how people respond to violence” says Kevin Dyer. “We are all in a situation sometimes when we come up against people who behave unreasonably. The sense of injustice when we are the victim of violence or attack is common to us all. When your life is threatened by violence, do you turn the other cheek or seek an eye for an eye? Jo Berry' response to violence is inspiring and empowering.”

The Bomb has been developed with help from Jo Berry and Patrick Magee but remains a work of fiction. “What’s real and not real is interesting” comments Kevin. “Some of the lines are Pat’s lines, and some are Jo’s lines. But the characters are not Pat and Jo. There’s a common root, but it’s about how families work and how when a bomb goes off it affects more than the person who was killed”.

The Bomb has emerged from a new kind of company. Based in the North West, Action Transport is raising the bar in terms of quality and ambition for young people’s theatre, placing it on par with the best regional or national theatre companies in the UK.

Previous work from The Bomb’s creator Kevin Dyer, who is also Action Transport’s Associate Writer, has been praised as “exemplary” (The Guardian) and “ bold and imaginative” (The Manchester Evening News).

Joe Sumsion, Director of The Bomb and Artistic Director / Chief Exec of Action Transport believes the play “is in part about bravery and courage. When the company programmed it we wondered if schools or colleges would have the courage to book it –would it be too difficult to get this kind of work into schools? But the play has sold quicker than any other Action Transport show in recent years – there really is a thirst for high quality, challenging theatre for young people. The subject-matter, the production and this response is inspiring”

December 2005 ~ S P A C E

From July 2005 11 new, emerging, and curious writers began a new writing programme run by Action Transport Theatre. A site specific programme based at Whitby Hall gave birth to 11 new plays. On Monday 5th December 3 professional actors, a creative team of 8 and a gallon of coffee came together for 3 ½ days to rehearse staged readings of these new plays (for more information please click here). A r a c e against time, but made possible, and four sell out performances later, our guests and audiences share their thoughts on the events…

“A wonderfully unique evening. Thank you so much for sharing it!”

“It was a really great evening. From a writer’s point of view it was amazing to see my work performed by two wonderful actors. From an audience member’s point of view it was a unique experience to see a number of diverse, excellently written plays by such a wide range of people. Thank you”

Fantastic! I thoroughly enjoyed all of the plays. All very different and all very enjoyable. I loved the legs!!”

[On Sharpest Tool in the Box:]
“Immediately entertaining and captivating. Came across as a cheeky – upbeat piece”

“An evening of rollercoasting emotions. Uplifted one minute and slightly disturbed the next. Great Stuff!”

“Wonderful leaves – evaluation made fun!”

[On Clash]
“What made Clash so poignant for me was how clear and conflicting all three character’s objectives were. The clash of their objectives created the drama. It was juicy. (I’m a sucker for ambiguous endings too!)”
Anna – Jellybelly Theatre Company

[On August 1916 and The Last Laugh]
“John and Sylvia’s plays have made me gasp and squirm in my seat – they have made me feel so uncomfortable as I’ve followed these character’s journeys.”

[On The Last Laugh]
“Wow! What a performance. Compelling and frightening. I really felt for Celia and wanted to protect her in some way.”

“Great legs Paul! (You look remarkably good in a dress)”

[On Masquerade]
“Subtle dialogue. Peculiar wit and sensitive observations.”

“Feel a bit ill actually after watching “Nervous”. It was funny and there was something excruciatingly painful about the character Paul”

[On August 1916]
“Enjoyable piece about the past – makes you think about people’s lives and working conditions.”

[On The Sharpest Tool in the Box]
“Very Funny - I really enjoyed it!”

[On Masquerade]
“Very real and effective”

[On Nervous]
“Entertaining and funny. Very good characterization.”

[The Last Laugh]
“Uncomfortable, memory stirring, disturbing, moving and well written.”

[On August 1916]
“Very real, wonderfully written.”

[On Masquerade]
“I really enjoyed being in the actors’ space. I felt the static atmosphere the script promotes and the subtle under laying subtext worked very simply within the script”

December 2005

Seasons Greetings

The elves get back at Santa for the long hours and non stop wrapping of presents!
Seasons Greetings from everyone at Action Transport Theatre

Photo from ‘Spike’ - Action Transport Young Writers production Autumn 2005.
Chris Jack, Anna Drayson and Roger Butcher. Photo by Sylvia Selzer.

December 2005

The Bomb Script
- Now On Sale !

The script is now available to purchase, and is supported by interviews with Jo Berry and the writer/director team, exploring the real events which inspired the play and also Action Transport’s approach to staging it.

Please email jess@actiontransporttheatre.co.uk
to order a copy (£5.50 incl. p&p).

For further information on the forthcoming tour, booking and teachers resources - please click here.

December 2005

Action Transport Theatre Company and
Action Transport Writers present

S P A C E

A unique new writing adventure
(and the perfect anti-pantomime festive evening!)
Thursday 8 th December & Friday 9th December
more information here

October 2005

Tselane’s Song Returns!

Fresh from wowing theatre audiences last year, Action Transport and Vulavulani Theatre Company’s smash hit South African show ‘Tselane’s Song’ is currently touring the UK this autumn after three previous sell-out tours.

‘Tselane’s Song’ is for the 5-8 age range and their families and which celebrates African stories, song and dance with a vitality and energy which is infectious!

Amongst touring to theatres and primary schools, the packed tour schedule includes a visit to Theatre Royal Bath, marking the opening of ‘ the egg’; their brand new dedicated theatre space for children and young people’s, as part of the Wild and Wacky festival.

“A delight to see – full of wonderful, imaginative stories, great music, energy and joy”
Audience member

Two of the three South African performers are from the original cast, including Fikekahle ‘Ntinti’ Dlalisa who plays Mfene the Monkey in the show, as well as directing the piece and holding the reigns as Artistic Director of Vulavulani Theatre Company. He is passionate about leading the first professional children and young people’s theatre company from Soweto and is fulfilling his life’s ambition by sharing ‘Tselane’s Song’ with different cultures.

An exciting development within the cast is Lehlogonolo Amanda Sibanyoni who is playing the role of the central character of nine year old Tselane. This is Amanda’s fist visit to the UK and she is thriving in the role of the playful and brave Tselane.

This national tour is gearing up for next years hotly anticipated third co-production ‘Gogo’. Set to tour throughout the summer of 2006, ‘Gogo’ – meaning Grandmother in Zulu – will be for the 7-11 age range and tells the story of two kids from Soweto who are sent from the city to live with their Gogo in the country. Township culture comes face to face with African tradition as the battle begins. ‘Gogo’ is a funny and moving family adventure, told with live music and dance, a journey into the jungle – and a deadly snake bite!

Following the award winning success of Dumisani’s Drum; the first international co-production which toured to audiences throughout 2002 and 2003, the demand for Tselane’s Song has been phenomenal with shows selling out in under a week with Gogo looking to go the same way!

“What magic! Surprising, thrilling, challenging, wonderful. Dumisani’s Drum was all that and more – inspirational! I loved it.” Head Teacher, Cheshire Primary School.

Dance, storytelling, songs and live music will combine to create a show like you’ve never seen before, from Soweto’s freshest children’s theatre company!

Please see (link to Tselane’s Song web page) for a full list of venues and tour dates. Further information can be obtained from Action Transport on 0151 357 2120 or click here to see the tour dates.

October 2005

Action Transport Youth Theatre is looking for new members!!

Our Youth Theatre is based in Whitby Hall, Ellesmere Port and we meet every Tuesday evening. Our younger group meets between 4.30 – 6.30pm and is immediately followed by our senior group which runs from 6.30pm – 8.30pm. The Youth Theatre has been open for nearly three year and we’ve been pretty busy!!

Action Transport Youth Theatre employs professional writers, directors and designers to create great pieces of theatre by young people. In 2004 we participated in the Shell Connections National Theatre project and produced the comedy ‘The Musicians’ by Oscar winning playwright Patrick Marber. In 2005 we commissioned local playwright John Moorhouse to write an epic version of the Scottish adventure classic ‘Kidnapped’ based on the novel by R.L. Stevenson.

So what will 2006 hold, well why not come along and discover for yourself. You don’t need to be an extrovert, just have lots of ideas, commitment and enthusiasm. If you’re 11 – 18 and are interested in joining then please contact either ring Jilly or Louis on 0151 357 2120 or visit our website on www.actiontransporttheatre.co.uk.

September 2005

Action Transport Young Writers present
Spike
Sponsored by Shell UK (Stanlow)

Action Transport Theatre have been working on an experiment in collective playwriting, not for the first time, and the final result is a new play called ‘Spike’ which will tour nationally from next week.

Sponsored by Shell UK, the professional creative team at Action Transport is in the final stages of creating a fantastic production which will tour to secondary school pupils in Ellesmere Port and Chester next week .

It will go on to travel further a field to Barrow-in-Furness and finishing in London.

The young writers of this play, all from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire will have the chance to go out on tour with the show and get to talk to their audiences about the process of writing their own collective play. They will also meet up with young writers from across the country, who are working on similar projects allowing them to share their experiences.

“The journey has been fantastic. The long and painful preparation work is finally beginning to pay off. Planning is so important to the finished article even though no one sees it or remembers it when the play is over!”

Dave Fellows, Young Writer on ‘Spike’.

Spike is touring to secondary school across Ellesmere Port and Chester next week including Sutton High School, Ellesmere Port (19/09/05), The Queens School, Chester (20/09/05), Kingsway High School, Chester (22/09/05) and Bishops Blue Coat High School (23/09/05). The play is aimed at 10-11 year olds but is also being utilised by GCSE Drama Students to review a live drama performance.

The show will also tour to primary schools and a local library in North Huyton, Merseyside between 27th – 29th September. Action Transport have been working with a cluster of five primary schools and the local library, offering a ‘Creativity Entitlement’ to a class of pupils who are now in Year 6, who will have seen every show relevant to their age group produced by Action Transport over the last three years. This has all been made possible through working with North Huyton New Deal in the Community. There is a public performance at Page Moss Library, Stocksbridge Lane, Huyton at 1.30pm on Thursday 29th September. For ticket details please contact Sue Stone on 0151 480 3925.

The show will tour nationally to The Ashton Group, Cumbria (23/09/05) for a performance to their youth theatre and young writers, and will finish with a bang in London, playing as part of Theatre Centre’s Young Writers Festival(30/09/05), at oh! Art, Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London.

So what is the play ‘Spike’ all about?

With the summer holidays only just beginning, Ruby is eager to do all those things she and her dad do, but now he’s not here and Grandad Jeff only eats pickled onions and jam and is far too old for climbing cliffs and for flying the kite.

Something’s got to give…

Spike is a story of hope and imagination in a world where children sometimes find themselves alone.

Created for 9-11 year olds and anyone who remembers what it was like to be that age, this has been a unique journey made by a team of people –which for some has been the first play they’ve ever written.

From first idea to final professional production Action Transport Young Writers are creating the reality that Action Transport are striving for in creating new plays for, by and with young people.

For further details of this project please go to http://www.actiontransporttheatre.co.uk/newwriting.php

For further information contact:
Jessica Egan, Promotions & Marketing Administrator
Tel: 0151 357 2120. Email: jess@actiontransporttheatre.co.uk

August 2005

Step Up
Sponsored by Shell UK (Stanlow)

The ‘Step Up’ theatre training project being run by Action Transport Theatre over the next few weeks is working with eight creative young people from Ellesmere Port. These young people have been directly recruited from Action Transport’s hugely popular Youth Theatre and the ‘In the Frame’ film making project; of which the latest film is soon to be televised on the Community Channel.

This is one of many young people’s creative projects that Shell UK (Stanlow) has supported over the last few years for Action Transport Theatre and the company is grateful for this support.

Guy Christiansen, Director of ‘Step Up’ has said:

“This project allows the young people to learn valuable skills and gain professional training in producing theatrical performance”

The final performance will be devised around themes of guilt, freedom, forgiveness and honesty. Experimentation is at the core of this project and the final product will be a unique celebration of the lives, experiences and thought of our young people collated and manipulated into a visually stunning and thought provoking piece of theatre.

The creative team includes Mike Crowley; a professional writer who has worked with the company on several occasions in the past, writing films and theatre productions. Gemma Pill; an up and coming young designer from Ellesmere Port, who created the set for the sell-out Youth Theatre show ‘Kidnapped’ in May of this year. Tom Kirkpatrick; a creative composer who directed the memorable musical composition of ‘Leatherboy’ which took place at Chester Gateway last autumn will also be joining us.

Rehearsals began on Monday 8 th August at and will take place daily at Whitby Hall over the next two weeks. Over this time the creative team will guide the young people through the process of making a play. The final performances will take place on Wednesday 24th & Thursday 25th August 2005.

Action Transport Theatre is dedicated to creating new plays for, by and with young people. This youth theatre training project is making this a reality by bringing together a variety of the young people from across Ellesmere Port to encourage them to ‘step-up’ and realise their creative potential.

August 2005

New Play written by pupils,
for pupils in local schools.
Sponsored by Shell UK (Stanlow)

No sooner have the school holidays started than and a group of ten young writers from Ellesmere Port have thrown themselves into the process of creating their own play . This will be professionally produced and toured to schools by Action Transport Theatre Company in September 2005.

The last two weeks have seen this unique writing project sponsored by Shell UK Stanlow , go from strength to strength. The ten dedicated young writers aged 15 and 16 are working together with professional actors, designers, composers and directors to create their play called ‘Spike’ .

“The process is like skydiving; the hardest thing is having the courage to jump out of the plane and pray you don’t hit the ground too hard. But once in the air, we have been freefalling brilliantly. Let’s hope our parachute opens!”
Dave Fellows, Young Writer

Written by local pupils for local pupils, this new play has attracted interest from local schools such as Whitby High School and Sutton High School in Ellesmere Port and The Queens School , Kingsway High School and Bishops Blue Coat High School in Chester .

Kevin Dyer – Associate Writer at Action Transport says the process of bringing together professionals with young people, allowing them to learn from each other has been a huge success:

'I'm so fed up with people being put in boxes. Being creative is like bursting out of your box and coming out a brighter, more amazing person. Drama, writing and art can do it for anybody’.

The last two weeks has seen ‘Spike’ come to life as three professional actors have taken on the roles and acted out the scenes created by the writers. The story so far is about a young girl called Ruby and her imaginary friend ‘Spike’, who helps her to understand her relationships with her Father and Grandfather. It is a story of a girl rising to the challenges in her family, which is touching, funny and written by many hands.

The young writers are learning how to initiate and develop ideas; how to write and re-write; how to look critically at their own work and the work of others. They are seeing their own ideas develop; they are writing collectively and as individuals – under the guidance of a professional playwright. The programme is heightening their literacy and planning skills, developing their interpersonal skills and their personal development as artists and as individuals. It will also do wonders for their IT!

Action Transport Theatre is dedicated to creating new plays for, by and with young people. Their latest unique writing project will see this become a reality throughout schools in Ellesmere Port and Chester this autumn with thanks to the continued support and encouragement from Shell UK (Stanlow).

For further details of this project please click here.

July 2005

Youth Theatre Taster Session

If you, or anyone you know, are interested in joining a Youth Theatre, Action Transport Theatre are running a Youth Theatre Taster Session. The next taster session will take place on Wednesday 6th July 2005 at Action Transport Theatre, Whitby Hall, Ellesmere Port at 5pm. The session will last for one hour and will be free of charge. You can find out more information by clicking here.

June 2005 :

Youth Theatre Show a Sell Out Success!

For any of you sceptics out there who thought eighteenth century Scottish history was boring, watching Kidnapped would have definitely changed your mind (not to mention knocked your socks and sporrans off!)

Sponsored by Shell UK (Stanlow) and adapted by Ellesmere Port writer John Moorhouse, Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Kidnapped was performed recently by Action Transport Youth Theatre over four nights at Whitby Hall Studio Theatre.

Following the story of a young man named David Balfouy, the show moved from battle scenes and ship wrecks, to cross country sprints through moorland heather. Action Transport Youth Theatre rose to this challenge and had audiences transfixed as the 25 strong cast energetically transported them through time on a heroic and dangerous journey.

One audience member commented;

“Excellent performance; a wonderful adaptation of the story and I enjoyed it so much I saw it twice!”

Alongside strong and assured performances from leads Alice Buttifant and Kylie Heron, Kidnapped was particularly engaging due to the total commitment and focus of the whole ensemble.

For more information on Kidnapped, please click here.

For further details about Action Transport Youth Theatre Taster Session and our Young Writers Programme, please call Louie 0151 357 2120.

June 2005 :

Autumn Tour Dates for Tselane's Song confirmed.
This tour is now completely sold out.

Click here to view the tour schedule.

May 2005 :

Between 18th and 20th May 2005 over 500 theatre professionals and policy makers came to London to debate the vision and needs of the theatre of the 21 st Century – www.theatre2005.com

The theme of the conference was `Raising the Bar’ and Action Transport’s Joe Sumsion was asked to speak on issues of quality in young people’s theatre. This document is the text of his contribution [ open .PDF ]

If you require any further information, please contact Action Transport directly.

PHOTO: Sarah Phiilps (Action Transport) Richard Oyarzabal from Cardboard Citizens, MP David Lammy, Annie Wood from Polka Theatre and Tim Wheeler from Mind the Gap. Photo by Yves Salmon.

April 2005 :

'Kidnapped'
Youth Theatre

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