Open theatre work in over 20 special schools and SEN units across Birmingham and Coventry and beyond, using nonverbal physical theatre to explore young people’s creativity to enable agency, capability, and connection.
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Open Theatre work with over 2000 young people in year-round weekly engagements within partnerships with those schools that have been sustained in many cases for over 10 years. They aim through their work to have a positive impact on learning outcomes, capacity to learn, confidence and sense of self, and the roles young people can play in the world when they leave school.
Nonverbal physical theatre involves play, simple props, music and movement. It’s a highly adaptive and individual process, and Open Theatre work with a small pool of specially trained facilitators.
