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.

 

Claire Dowie combines the smoothness and audience rapport of a stand-up comic, the hypnotic intensity of an inspired storyteller and the inventiveness of an insightful and sensitive author, alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) comic, moving and frightening, sprinkled with flashes of high comedy.

The Stage


Lowri Thomas