Fred Theatre has rapidly become recognised as a creative and innovative provider of in-school performance.
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Fred Theatre is committed to touring high quality theatre to schools across the UK, bringing to life a range of texts, and giving students the advantage of live performance.
Six professional actors perform our GCSE text-based productions; we feel a smaller cast compromises quality. All Fred Theatre staff attending your school are DBS checked, trained in child safeguarding and experienced in the idiosyncrasies of in-school performances.
“It was fantastic! So professional and carefully engineered to give the students what they need.”
Parmiter’s School, Nr Watford
Teachers appreciate our commitment to the text and producing a faithful rendition of the original, just a little shorter! And, all we need to perform at your school is a space approximately 5m x 5m with room (of course) for the audience.
“A quick note to say that the company was fantastic yesterday. Pupils/staff absolutely loved it. They were a pleasure to host. Hope to be able to invite again.”
Stonar School
From October, we’re extending our time with you and your students to two hours. This enables us to include an interactive element between the cast and audience as part of the session. During this time there will be a discussion of the play’s themes, characters, how we approached the production, and choices made in rehearsal. There will also be a chance for you and your students to ask questions.
We are equally happy to run this as a continuous two hour session, or include a short break following the performance, whatever you feel will work best for you and your students.
IN-SCHOOL PRODUCTIONS FOR 2019-20
Designed with the needs of your GCSE students in mind we have…
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
(available from 14 October to 20 December)
JEKYLL AND HYDE
(available from 24 February to 08 May)
MACBETH
(available from 20 January to 07 February and 24 February to 08 May)
ROMEO AND JULIET
(available from 03 to 14 February and 02 March to 08 May)
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
(available from 02 March to 08 May)
And for your younger students…
FRED’S SHAKESPEAREANCE
(available now and throughout the coming year)
Our fun-packed three hour introduction to Shakespeare, his life and works, designed for students who are about to embark on studying the Bard
Every student receives a programme that, along with cast and crew details, includes notes on the production and text, as well as support material for them to use in the interactive post-show session. Students will be able to keep these for use in class and as a valuable revision aid.
Also, from October, we will provide you with copies of information sheets, for distribution to students ahead of our being with you. These will provide valuable information about the text and production and we’re sure your students will want to keep them with their class notes to use in revision. These sheets will help build a sense of anticipation ahead of the performance, encouraging students to value our visit to your school, and make the most of their opportunity to learn from it.
As in previous years, we are happy to provide additional workshops if this is of interest to you. These are devised through discussion with you, and delivered by a member of our skilled education team. We can also arrange visits from our directors and artistic director.
“Thank you both so much for arranging and the performance and running the workshops yesterday. Both were excellent and hugely beneficial for our students. Please thank the incredibly talented cast on our behalf, it was great to see Macbeth brought to life in such a vivid and engaging way.”
Oasis Academy, Brislington
To discuss any aspect of a visit from Fred Theatre to your school, please feel free to call us on 01789 777612 or email:
Helen: helen@fred-theatre.co.uk
Sarah: sarah@fred-theatre.co.uk
We look forward to speaking with you soon, and bringing amazing live performance to your school.
We appreciate how tight budgets are, so we’ve been working hard to keep our costs low and add as much value as possible to our offer. We reckon we’re hard to beat!