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On Your Marks

Bringing learning about physical and emotional wellbeing to life.

One Of My Friends

Tools to support each other.

Going Country

Exploring issues surrounding county lines activities

Big difference

Theatre supporting healthier lifestyles

Wired: Under the Influence

Impactful drama exploring substance misuse

No Harm Done?

Starting conversations around mental health through theatre

Under the Influence?

Exploring risks and consequences of drinking underage

What we do

Since 2009 Dramatic Theatre have been designing and delivering engaging, educational theatre projects. Our approach offers young people the opportunity to learn about themselves and their world in a creative way.

Our work uses professional performance and Interactive workshops to support young people to explore key issues, so that they can begin to make empowered and informed choices in the future. Whether it's exploring a challenge, tackling a key issue, or expressing feelings, our projects are always designed to connect with the needs of our participants and partners.

Our work has taken us- across the Yorkshire and Humber region and connected us with children and young people of all needs, abilities and backgrounds. In both schools and wider community settings. Together we use theatre to create new ways of exploring ideas, that support young people to discover, develop and grow.

Dramatic Theatre constituted as a community interest company in 2020.

We have found using educational theatre a powerful and engaging method for communicating our healthy lifestyle messages to young people. Our collaborations with dramatic theatre have produced extremely exciting, engaging and effective projects that support our objectives.

- Laurie Fergusson, Deputy Director Public Health. East Riding of Yorkshire council

Projects

About us

Live still from Wired: Under the influence

The future

At Dramatic we are ambitious to develop creative approaches to the health-related challenges our communities face. We're keen to develop new relationships, new work and expand our current projects reach. If you would like to explore the possibility of collaborating to achieve your goals or would like to involve theatre in communicating your messages to children and young people we would love to hear from you.

Supports the curriculum and our work in school...a creative and effective way to put important health messages across to childrenBig difference

Excellent live performance is a memorable medium for education and this was just that!Big difference

Outstanding presentation that really connected with the children and made them think...great initiativeBig difference

Good presentation with a plenary that does challenge and is thought provoking. I'd recommend to other schoolsNo Harm Done?

It shows that its OK not to be OK, and to look out for friends. No Harm done? Has done an excellent job of sensitively raising issues about self harm and mental healthNo Harm Done?

Especially good for encouraging teenage boys to discuss feelings and emotionsNo Harm Done?

It's a really effective way of delivering crucial messages to young peopleNo Harm Done?

Captured all the students attention...very relevant to the decisions students of this age will face in the next few yearsWired: Under the Influence

Great to see an educational presentation that conveys information almost entirely by posing questions. This really encouraged critical thinking and engagementWired: Under the Influence

It made our pupils think and gave them facts to considerWired: Under the Influence

An informative session that encourages students to think about their actionsWired: Under the Influence

Encourages young people to talk and build positive relationships shares how physical activity can help feelings.On Your Marks

Fun, interactive and pitched perfectly. children had the chance to think about their own emotional health through the characters storyOn Your Marks

Shows talking about feelings as very normal. Offers children lots of ideas to help them understand and manage their feelings. Engaging and enjoyable.On Your Marks

Allows pupils to think for themselves. The characters really engage them in talking about feelings.One Of My Friends

The Drama allows students to consider scenarios without it being personal to them. Exactly the issues our students are dealing with day to day. Excellent.One Of My Friends

Well led interactions that addressed potentially difficult subjects with skill. The questioning supported pupils to reflect on the characters choices, attitudes and behaviours.One Of My Friends