Prospero: a manifesto for drama in in the digital century
These are challenging times for theatre and the arts in education. For the first time, in the UK, the number of entrants for A Level Theatre Studies has dropped below 10,000. Polling suggests three quarters of parents would prefer their children to study Maths at degree level rather than an arts discipline. Recent Arts Council England research shows that whilst children and young people value the arts (with drama amongst the most popular) societal and systemic pressures are limiting their capacity to explore their creative potential.
Prospero: a manifesto for drama in in the digital century
These are challenging times for theatre and the arts in education. For the first time, in the UK, the number of entrants for A Level Theatre Studies has dropped below 10,000.
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They are not explicitly about Prospero, but can give readers background to its development and how C&T created it.
Kidderminster’s young LQBTQ+ celebrate their history with C&T film
A group of young LQBTQ+ people aged 13 -19 living in the West Midlands town of Kidderminster have celebrated their history and identiies by researching, devising and making a film of the stories from their community.
C&T’s Prospero to pioneer theatre and tech with children with learning disabilities
We are delighted to announce a ground breaking new programme of work, which will bring the company's Prospero theatre and arts technology to Fort Royal Community School, which serves children and young people in Worcester with a range of learning and physical disabilities.
C&T’s Prospero named ‘global education innovation’ at Helinski Summit
The Worcester-based Theatre company, C&T, have had their online educational tool - called Prospero - awarded the status of 'global education innovation for 2019' at an exclusive summit in Helsinki.
C&T shaping a new generation of Digital Storytellers in West Midlands libraries
Through the auttumn, Saturday morning means it’s time for C&T's regular weekly workshops using Augmented Reality (AR) technology
C&T begin ongoing progamme of theatre work in Nairobi
C&T has begun an ongoing programme of work in Korogocho, a slum district of Nairobi, Kenya.
C&T recreates Liverpool Overhead Railway in Virtual Reality
The signals are on green for C&T's latest collaboration with Bootle's Inclusion Network and Litherland Youth Centre on Merseyside. Thanks to the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund young people from across these two communiuties will work with C&T over the next six months to retell the history and stories of Liverpool's Overhead Railway.
For C&T, theatre is the Next Big Thing in technology
C&T has been mixing technology and drama for nearly twenty years. We're not new to the field. We've been around for long enough to know that the only thing that is consistent in the arena of digital technology is that everything changes.
‘I miss my street in Damascus’: Hussein’s story and C&T’s Push/Pull
This is Hussein. He is thirteen years old and lives in District 7 in Vienna. He has lived there for 18 months. In recent weeks he has been part of C&T's global project allowing young people to tell their own migration stories through drama and digital technology.
Digital mapping new perspectives in Vienna
C&T has been using its powerful drama and digital mapping methodologies to engage with young people in one of Vienna’s most deprived districts. Working with local social researchers and two schools the company spent several weeks taking part in the inclusive Spaces 2.0 project.