What's more, Wheeller has an active presence on social media, an incredibly well-resourced YouTube channel and, if he can, he'll come into your school (in person or virtually) to work with your students.

There are interesting parallels to be drawn with the verbatim play/film, The Laramie Project, and examining the director's methods in engaging the audience through music and visual imagery. This book offers a unique and fulsome guide for teaching/studying this play and includes a detailed scheme of work for teachers using the play as a set text in the GCSE Drama examination. The Foundation has also funded and coordinated a professional tour of London schools, colleges and communities as a Theatre in Education production since 2017, recently attracting Arts Council funding for its fourth professional tour this Spring.Susan Elkin paid a visit to Half Moon theatre in London’s East End to chat with CEO Chris Elwell about their extensive education outreach and innovative theatre programmes. We hope this will bring the play to many more drama studios and classrooms across the country and around the world, with its important messages of risk, choice and consequence, friendship, forgiveness, love and loss.

There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. With two Edinburgh Fringe seasons behind me and a huge variety of Theatres visited things have grown beyond my wildest dreams. The Story of Daniel Spargo-Mabbs, a bright and popular sixteen year old boy from south London who died in January 2014, from ecstasy. The opening image is of serene Dan, in a white T-shirt and jeans, holding glow sticks, heaven bound, the angel at a rave. It was her idea, in those early months after Dan died, that we consider using drama as a means of communicating our important messages to young people.

uk) and over the last 18 months they have worked with playwright Mark Wheeller to have Daniel’s story turned into a verbatim play as a performance to educate young people – they want the production to tour schools so that ‘many good things can come from this very bad thing. Through the charity that's been set up in Daniel's name, the text has been studied in theatres, schools and theatre groups, both in the UK and internationally and watched (in a variety of contexts) by approximately 16,000 students. Drama is an incredibly powerful way to communicate important messages to young people, and Mark Wheeller’s play has become a core part of our vision to enable young people to understand the risks, and potential consequences and impact of experimenting with drugs. I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die’ is a verbatim play by award-winning playwright Mark Wheeller, using the words of Dan’s family and friends to tell his story. Then the first half consists of wild dancing separating out the verbatim interviews with Mark Wheeller.

We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps and external Video providers.Upon leaving the Theatre I messaged my children to tell them I loved them, although it fell on deaf ears! As well as the topical subject matter, the reality of Dan's story, and its great energy and emotion, this play is very accessible. Elliot Montgomery, who has directed the production, keeps the show moving quickly and it never dwells for too long on anything. Here, he was sold a lethal dose of MDMA (the powdered form of ecstasy) after which he suffered multiple organ failure. Dan’s parents share his childhood milestones and joys, growing up in a loving family, and how he made one mistake.

The National Youth Theatre’s Rep Company is celebrating its first ten years and Susan Elkin paid a visit to learn more. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. We hope it’ll reach its 1,000 th performance even more quickly, as awareness of how very relevant, engaging and impactful it is spreads further.Predicated partly on Black History Month, Elayne Ogbeta’s muliti-layered play presents Grandad (Marcus Hercules) and his primary school age granddaughter, Abi (Jazmine Wilkinson) in his garden. It includes a detailed scheme of work created by Annette Hulme, Head of Academic Drama at Leicester Grammar School. Published by Bloomsbury in 2017, it has been studied and performed by young people across the UK and overseas, with incredible impact. Students will learn that there's always a choice and that the risks associated with drug use are incredibly high.