Free Theatre Education Programme
Free Theatre's Education Programme introduces audiences and the wider public to our theatre practice building on recent successes such as Ars Acustica (2019), Alice (2018), The Black Rider (2017), Frankenstein (2016), The Mauricio Kagel Project (2015), Footprints/Tapuwae (2015), Kafka's Amerika (2014), Canterbury Tales (2013) and The Earthquake in Chile (2011), which saw the company working together with the local community on large-scale projects. Free Theatre members have extensive teaching experience at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Public workshops and classes are specifically focused around movement, voice, mask and puppetry, and acting for camera and we are proud to be a learning destination for Children's University.
Children and young people obviously have so much to say and express and I really feel that the Free Theatre Education Programme enables them to do this in a thoughtful, considered and highly relevant way. A commitment to quality of production is balanced with an unswerving respect for an authentic creative process - something which seems to me as a parent to be very educational and affirming, and to my daughter to be enormous fun.
- Annabel Calder (Parent)
- Annabel Calder (Parent)
"To achieve such a high standard of production working with new and complex material, the Free Theatre workshops new scripts with an intensity that is unusual in New Zealand. The results are exciting and unique."
- Bettina Senff, Director, Goethe-Institut New Zealand
- Bettina Senff, Director, Goethe-Institut New Zealand
The development of the Free Theatre Education Programme was supported by the Rātā Foundation: http://www.ratafoundation.org.nz/.
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"Christchurch is well served by this young and innovative theatre company which presents challenges to its audiences through the material and manner in which it is presented. We need these kinds of boundary-breaking groups to keep the local arts culture stimulated and forward-thinking."
- Brendon Burns, Former Member of Parliament, Christchurch Central Electorate
- Brendon Burns, Former Member of Parliament, Christchurch Central Electorate