Participate
Guest Directing/Lecturing
We lead seminars, give lectures and direct practical devising, writing and performance projects at Higher and Further Education institutions. Recently this includes guest speaking at Manchester Metropolitan University, workshops and mentoring for Advanced Theatre Practice MA students at Royal Central School for Speech and Drama. Previous work includes a week-long residency at Plymouth University with all 2nd year BA Theatre and Dance students to develop devised performances, and directing THIS IS A TRAP DON’T GO, a full-length collaboratively made BA production at Arden School of Theatre/Manchester College.
Workshops
We offer a range of theatre skills workshops for students, young people and community groups. We tailor these to your group, but always give you the chance to delve into Made In China’s accessible and nuanced approach to making challenging and sophisticated performances. You can develop writing and performing skills simultaneously or choose to weight the focus on one or the other. You can book a single session, intensive residency or a series of workshops. We are experienced at directing participants towards final sharing outcomes whether these are within the group, for an invited audience or public performances.
In all workshop and education contexts, we guide participants through fun, practical group work that builds confidence, verbal communication and theatre-making skills. We work in the space between autobiography and character, fact and fiction: thinking about who you are, who people might see you as, and how you can play with the space in between. And how you can do this to make performances that are empowering for you, that ask difficult questions of audiences and the world, and that are thrillingly and distinctively live.
Bespoke workshop projects we’ve run include 10 day intensive Summer Space To Create (National Theatre Learning), 4 day workshop process with local community appearing in Molly Taylor’s The Wave (Almeida Theatre), weekly workshops with young people culminating in multiple public performances (Nobody’s Hero for Cambridge Junction Young Company, #importantpeople for Battersea Arts Centre’s Homegrown.
Professional Performances, Participatory Projects
Participation is key to our creative practice as theatre-makers. It challenges us and connects us with people outside of the theatre bubble and takes us to exciting and surprising new places. Whether it’s making and co-starring in a mainstage show with 7-10 year olds experiencing theatre for the first time (Double Double Act, Unicorn Theatre) or crafting an hour-long participatory audio performance for whole classes of primary school children to do (Ministry of Memory, Imperial War Museum North), or something we can’t even yet imagine - we’re up for it!