Stage2

Aims & Objectives

We are totally committed to:

  • Allowing each member to achieve their full potential
  • Creating a wide range of opportunities within workshops and shows
  • Producing challenging work with high expectations of members‚Äô achievement
  • Offering technical, backstage and design training
  • Encouraging members to be involved in the administrative side of the company e.g. press, marketing, budgeting etc.
  • Enabling members to study for qualifications
  • Offering a "ladder of opportunity" so members can progress from members to assistants to leaders
  • Discovering and developing members' new, and existing, talents
  • Developing members' life skills e.g. communication, organisation
  • Encouraging socialising between ages, sexes, cultures, and all levels of ability and experience
  • Encouraging individuality and self expression by providing a friendly, supportive environment where members can discuss ideas at any time
  • Running an effective peer-led Mentor Scheme
  • Ensuring personal confidentiality at all times (within legal restrictions)
  • Complementing school and parental values (we never condone missing homework or lessons for rehearsals etc.)
  • Keeping members up to date with local initiatives and events
  • Helping members in their move to further education or with their chosen career options
  • Supporting members with schoolwork and activities by stimulating interest and excitement in learning generally
  • Supporting members with their activities outside the company, e.g setting up their own theatre companies or helping to promote events
  • Acting as an opportunities medium with other organisations, work experience, placements etc.
  • Passing on professional casting information
  • Maintaining Equal Opportunities in all areas of the company including; ensuring a member's financial situation is never a hindrance and providing extra, discreet, support to any member at any time 

To ensure everyone is, and feels like they are, a valued and important member of the company.

 

Literate, brilliantly paced, totally engrossing and perceptively revealing to the author's true intentions (Amadeus)

Birmingham Post


Jonni Dowsett