![]() Ten years on the play still attracts large audiences playing to over ten thousand.Ĭommunity theatre must be accessible not just for the audience member but for the participants. ![]() Initially, as a community project working with students at Wirral Metropolitan College, the brief was to create a production that would bring an audience in because of the local subject matter. These methods have a proven track record of success with young people, groups with particular needs and requirements, people with learning difficulties, disabilities and others.Ģ013's mainhouse project was Down Our Street at the Royal Court Liverpool. Running Active Drama for the past seventeen years giving him the opportunity to develop working practices in community and educational Theatre that are accessible to all. STUPIDISM is a comedy musical that looks at racism, what is racism and how to stop the stupidity of racism, and for that matter every other 'ism,' in schools and communities.Īs a community and educational drama practitioner Brian's work has covered many areas and communities, developing projects, working with many different groups of people. Other examples of the school work include EMMA, a play that looks at HIV and AIDS. BOYS and GIRLS is designed to play in junior schools and secondary schools allowing the audience to make choices about their own lives, and their own education during the interactive performance. The play was taken on by CHILDLINE who supported several tours with additional workshops. The ‘hot-seating’, the interaction, the use of a ‘joker’, and the play itself are designed to work in any forum, from a comprehensive school sports hall with 800 pupils in on a Monday morning, to a small class in a private school in the heart of Oxfordshire. There is report after report of situations being resolved straight after the play has been shown, and in several cases during the play. ![]() ![]() The play is designed to hi-light issues that were currently affecting the school both for groups and for individuals. The musical play is an interactive piece that gave the audiences a chance to look at all sides of the argument. His touring show BULLY has been one of the most successful Theatre in Education pieces in the country having been seen by over half a million young people.īULLY, has toured across the country for over ten years. This provided a piece of theatre that could be fine-tuned for the client without incurring extra costs for the company.Īs Artistic Director for Active Drama, he wrote and directed countless pieces of theatre, for conventional and not such conventional settings. The programme looked at the Tudors in THE APPEAL OF BIRKENHEAD PRIORY and The Victorians AROUND THE SQUARE OF BIRKENHEAD. For the Mr Park Programme in Birkenhead Park, Brian created a piece of interactive educational theatre that, although using the same framework, could look at different subjects, vary the length of performance from 45 minutes to 2 hours, and change the level of playing depending on the age and ability of the group. Called The Square Who Couldn't Rock 'n' Roll, Brian toured this round Wirral schools the following year. Two years later it was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.Īfter studying A BA(hons) at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds, Brian honed his writing skills at The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television where he wrote many plays about many different subjects, how light reflects, young peoples television habits, Kodak and even a song for David Attenborough, at the launch of Survival Island, his first IMax Film. As Director of Action Replay, Brian increased the gallery and education repertoire to 24 performances looking at many different subjects, issues and styles. This work continued across heritage sites on the Wirral as part of the Active Drama Heritage Programme. He wrote his first piece, an operetta, at Wirral Metropolitan College when he was 16. Brian McCann is a prolific writer, composer and director, scoring many successes with his work.
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