Education
"A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, what theyd like to be if they dared and what they really are"

Tove Jansson

You can find us making exciting things happen in a vast array of situations from the mundane to the amazing. Wherever it is, we will transform it.

We use the process of theatre to enhance creative education and life-long learning. We take a multi-disciplinary approach, working as visual, performance and digital artists, facilitating people's creative potential and developing skills. We particularly enjoy collaborating with other artists and working closely with teachers.

We have been at the forefront of generating new and innovative models of work in this field.

Please contact us if you would like full cvs for any of our designers who teach, lecture or lead workshops on various aspects of theatre design.

Nettie Scriven

Artist-in-education

My work seeks to enhance children's learning through working with their different languages and intelligences. I delight in crossing boundaries of academic disciplines, such as science and art. I have worked nationally in primary, secondary and higher education for the last twenty years.

Academic

As a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, I currently co-run the SPaCES programme. SPaCES creates theatre for young people and develops programmes of participatory arts work created by professional artists and undergraduates.

Creative Development Worker

With Creative Partnerships, Nottingham since 2002. My work has been placed at the forefront of delivering the government's agenda on developing a creative curriculum in schools. My remit is to work on strategic developments with senior management and to foster partnerships between the cultural sector and education to fulfil children's and staff's creative potential.

I advocate that creativity is an essential part of life's learning, and an enriching tool for a healthy and confident society.

Current publications:

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Jane Linz Roberts

Jane has developed a range of workshop techniques for use with many different groups and for a variety of purposes. These include enabling groups without design expertise to explore the practical experience of design and giving young people access to the source of ideas in a performance. She also uses workshops during the production process, allowing actors and directors to explore the visual world of the text.

Skills taught include:

Examples of recent work include:

She has also been a visiting lecturer for A Level and BTec students and visiting lecturer to the Theatre Design BA Courses at Nottingham Trent University and the Welsh College of Music and Drama.

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Fiona Watt

Fiona has led workshops for young designers and non-designers alike in various elements of the design process.

She aims to:

She has worked for Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, Theatre Royal, Bath, Woking Community Play and Haddo House Opera, and with young stage management teams in training at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

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Anna Fleischle

Anna has:

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Helen Fownes-Davies

Freelance Visual Artist Work

Helen has programmed and delivered an extensive number of workshops in Theatre Arts for adults, young people, children and people with special educational needs in Schools, Colleges, Community centres, Day Centres and Sheltered Housing, including:

Nottingham Playhouse, Roundabout Theatre, The Lakeside Arts Centre Birmingham Royal Ballet, Dance 4, Creative Partnerships, MENCAP, Nottinghamshire Next Stage, Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council.

Projects have included:

Large carnival puppet heads, shadow puppets, banners, masks, carnival arts, tree sculptures and theatre design – set and costume, many tailored specifically to support a particular theatre production or event.

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Steve Denton

Steve Denton has long been interested in educational theatre work, and has run workshops in aspects of scenic craft and mask making for all age groups, as well as specific workshops for schools and people with special needs.

He has also worked on large-scale community productions offering NVQ based qualifications for workshop participants.

He is a part-time lecturer in design at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, teaching on the BA and Post-Graduate Theatre Design courses.

He has particular interests in CAD, digital imaging and design for dance, as well as teaching studio-based design projects and prop making, and overseeing the design and realisation of a large number of theatre, dance and opera productions for the college each year.

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Nick MacLiammoir

Nick has devised and taught:

He has developed a range of workshop techniques, employing painting, drawing and making to produce visual responses to both text and design ideas. He has also used design based workshops as a vehicle for technical training so that technicians approach equipment with an understanding of its purpose.

Workshop examples are:

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