Education

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Vamos Theatre's workshops provide students, from beginners to more advanced, with a unique experience of  full mask and physical theatre,  and enable participants to engage with learning through innovative drama and theatre techniques. Workshops are highly participatory, empowering to both students and teachers, and are run by experienced practitioners.

Vamos Theatre structures its workshop programme around its latest production, currently Much Ado About Wenlock.  Sessions use elements from the show’s story and characters to encourage an understanding of its main themes, and provide a link between the young people’s workshop experience and the performance.

All workshop leaders hold current CRB certification.

Click here to view our education downloads including Vamos Theatre's Education Menu for 2012

Education Menu 2012

Mask Taster Sessions

Drawing from the current touring production of Much Ado About Wenlock, Vamos Theatre offers a selection of taster sessions to introduce participants to its full mask theatre techniques. Session includes; rules of the mask, hot seating, mask performance, audience participation, and non-verbal communication.

Maximum of 30 Participants
Duration: 1 hour or 2 hours

Mask Devising Workshop/Residency

Using material and techniques from the current touring production, participants work to devise mask scenes through structured exercises and professional direction, culminating in a performance.

An ideal starting point for GCSE or ‘A’ level students creating work for exams.

Maximum of 30 Participants
Duration: 1 – 3 days

Mask Making Residency

A creative, inspiring and informative residency. Participants make their own masks using a clay and vacuum former process, and experience devising and performing mask theatre. Performances can be issue or theme based and masks can be taken away by the group as a valuable future resource.

8 years and over
Maximum of 16 Participants
Duration: 3 – 5 days

Physical Theatre Taster Workshop

This session explores the rules of how to devise in a group and generates endless ideas for devising theatre through improvisation. The workshop investigates physical theatre techniques and shares the methods that Vamos Theatre uses in devising its touring productions.

This extended session is an ideal starting point for GCSE or ‘A’ level students creating work for exams.

Maximum of 30 Participants
Duration: 2 hours or 4 hours

Don't forget you can download our 2012 Education Menu pdf. Click here to view our education downloads including Vamos Theatre's Education Menu for 2012

For further information about our education programme, or to book, call us on +44 (0)1905 748249 or click here to contact us

"I don’t think the girls realised the amount of skill and expertise they were watching until they began the workshop, when suddenly they understood how hard working in a mask genre can be. They really loved the workshop - and got so much out of it."
Expressive Arts Co-ordinator Malvern St James Girls College

"A wonderfully evocative, sensitive performance and fun-filled workshop. To see special needs children of all levels/disabilities responding was fantastic!”
Regency High Special School

"Definitely would recommend inspires teachers and pupils alike – making classes work as a team – all achieving something in the workshop and learning invaluable drama skills. An inspirational, uplifting day!"
Kingsley College

"Such good fun, and I loved…being given the opportunity and licence to play. The power of the full face masks was extraordinary. I loved the liberation it gave people."
Sian Kerry - Arts Alive

“I thought the workshop was going to be boring- all sat down, no interaction but it was all Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!”
Staff, Regency High Special School

"What a day!! AWESOME! Thank you! The children were so engaged throughout the performance and the workshops"
Barbara Britton, St Barnabas School

• Click here to download the Vamos Theatre Education Menu 2012