This has been bothering me. I’m sure that science show is brilliant, I bet my 9 yr old would love it. But best family theatre??? That’s like Derren Brown winning best lead actor. #Oliviers

Stage managers call for more job-shares in backstage roles Stage managers are urging the industry to embrace the value of job-sharing, recommending its benefits for accessibility, mental health and those with caring responsibilities

YES TO THIS! Stage managers are urging the industry to embrace the value of job-sharing, recommending its benefits for accessibility, mental health and those with caring responsibilities. -Via @TheStage.

www.thestage.co.uk/news/news/st...

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Cumbersome yes probably! But the Arts are the only sector that are also expected to serve education delivery. I would love an arts rich education system so that arts orgs don’t have to fill the gaps - would lead to much more exciting work with schools.

They’re not responsible for & won’t fund statutory education like curriculum delivery, I guess that’s was this will focus on 🤷‍♀️

This is better news… I hope

If drama, alongside other arts, is given weight in the primary curriculum teachers will apply it to topic learning. Kids will more easily engage with learning and attainment will improve. It creates equitable classrooms.
Drama & the arts are not just ‘extra curricular’ reaching only some kids.

…more specialist teachers and better access to extra-curricular activities. These are important issues, and where we received evidence that extends beyond curriculum and assessment, we have passed that on to the Department for Education, who will reflect it in wider work.”

“The arts are a good illustration of some of the dilemmas for this Review, in that not all of the issues that have been identified relate to the curriculum or assessment framework. For example, in arts subjects we have heard calls for improvements in equipment…

Not read all 45 pages yet, but this curriculum review 🙄
So much promise of valuing creativity pre-election & it barely features in the interim report. Drama & creativity improve access to learning and without it being woven through statutory requirements for Primary it remains for the privileged…

SAD BOOK | 201dancecompany

My 5 year old isn’t going to believe it in the morning when I tell her @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social was narrating 201 Dance Company’s performance of Sad Book. Hero, from my childhood to hers.

The best kids work reaches everyone. Buy the book.
www.201dancecompany.com/sadbook

Back at Sheffield Theatres this week, the place that made me. Playing on the wild carpet in the 80’s, radical youth theatre in the 90’s, a month long exchange in Japan, assistant directing, a huge outdoor promenade show & a couple of years on stage door with the best Yorkshire blokes. Home 🧡

This is the best news for us - exciting things to come with Rebekah & Rachel 🙌

Pig Heart Boy and Great Ormond Street Hospital | The Unicorn Theatre Our Creative Hub Director talks about our collaboration with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Pig Heart Boy. Over the past few years we’ve developed a rela

More about how Great Ormond Street Hospital supported the development of the show here…

www.unicorntheatre.com/news/pig-hea...

Sound Design & Composition: Duramaney Kamara, Max Perryment

Creative Captions: Virgine Taylor

Big thanks to the team @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social for their work on Lanterns

Poets: Joseph Coelho, Deanna Rodger, Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini @astrominx.bsky.social, Sile Sibanda, Unicorn Creative Associates, Patients at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, Sheffield Children’s Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Joy Is Whatever Makes You Happy YouTube video by Unicorn Theatre

Malorie Blackman’s excellent Pig Heart Boy opened yesterday with a 90’s party & the launch of our poems written in collaboration with kids receiving hospital care across England.

www.unicorntheatre.com/news/pighear...

A child’s hand holding a pencil and a notebook

Our Creative Associates in for the first preview of Pig Heart Boy. Left with some excellent notes from them to feed back to the company. I love this bit - their insights are 👌

A very long time ago, part of a job at a print library. They are fascinating and I’m not a pro! David A Carter makes the best ones ☺️

HOME boss: Theatre has a duty to support the next generation of artists Theatre industry must look after ’supply chain’ of new artists to ensure that the creative ecology is "still here in 10 years’ time", Karen O’Neill has said

"If we’re going to keep surprising, exciting and challenging our audiences, we’re going to have to care for and develop our artists."

https://buff.ly/3WzwKDh

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Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

Video shop assistant
Stage Door keeper
Pop up book maker
Cocktail waitress
Outdoor Arts Assistant
Trainee Stage Manager
Bar staff
Festival Security
Nightclub flyerer

Time to rebuild…