Playback and Theatrelink projects
Money raised through private funding for the Royal Shakespeare Company contributes to a variety of projects across many different areas. Current schemes include Playback and the Theatrelink project working with local children in Warwickshire and Coventry.
Playback project
Generous third-party funding from the Alan Edward Higgs Charity has meant that the RSC has been able to work closely with the Warwickshire Education Authority to produce a programme of arts education and activity with schools in Coventry and Warwickshire.
The Playback project for Year Ten students and teachers uses Shakespeare's plays as a stimulus to provide opportunity for young people in the greater Coventry area to explore and express their own creativity and to enhance their literacy and drama skills and introduces teachers to different teaching approaches to Shakespeare.
For more on the Playback project, please click here.
Theatrelink project
Over the last three years, Stratford Town Trust have generously funded the RSC in a project enabling students from Stratford schools to create short three minute films inspired by one of Shakespeare's plays. To help with ideas for their films, pupils received free tickets to see the RSC's production of As You Like It directed by Gregory Thompson at the Swan Theatre.
The pieces where filmed over three hourly sections on location and professional directors and editors worked with the children to produced the films which premiered at the local cinema, the Stratford Picture House.
For more on the Theatrelink project, please click here.
