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Stitch Up is a new theatre-in-education programme for students aged 13+, currently touring schools through until December. The half day participatory programme is based around Chris Cooper’s play Stitch Up.

Stitch Up creates opportunities for reflection, problem-solving and creative thinking, cultivating innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the classroom.

The play itself is about the alien and alienated, the individual and the community, freedom and necessity. The follow up to Chris Cooper’s Dereliction, it is part of a series of plays about young people on the margins of society.

As the centre of Big Brum‘s theatre-in-education programme, the work celebrates the UN Year of Youth and the EU Year of Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.

To find out more or make a booking, contact Claire Procter at claire@bigbrum.plus.com or call 0121 464 4607

Dereliction, written by local playright Chris Cooper, has been touring the West Mids for the past few months and will get its last outing in a free community performance at Pegasus Primary School, Turnhouse Road, Castle Vale (map) on Thurs 11 Dec.

Dereliction is a study of freedom in a climate of fear, alienation and anger. The play is part of Big Brum’s year long celebration of the Rights of the Child

(via aCtiVe Arts)

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