Education
Past projectsEducation has been at the core of Complicité’s practice for decades and we are proud to be a leading practitioner of devised theatre on many GCSE, BTEC and A Level courses.
Designed for schools, our projects and programmes offer teachers and students a chance to learn about and experience first hand the Company’s devising and collaborative practices; where building an ensemble through physical training and play, and a spirit of playfulness, risk taking and willingness to fail lies at its heart.
These projects and programmes are led by Complicité’s Associates, who are highly experienced devising performers and practitioners.
Explore schools projects in the tabs above, including the Digital Offer which brings Complicité productions into the classroom and Devising in the Secondary Classroom, a subsidised programme of student and teacher workshops that takes place in the Autumn term. If you’d like to see our free digital devising and production resource packs, you can visit our Resources page.
We also offer a bespoke workshop series for schools. The techniques we employ with students in this work are the games and exercises that have grown out from Complicité’s rehearsal room. These workshops are practical and build communal understanding of how to work together as an ensemble to create a shared visual language rooted in the body. If you are interested in booking a workshop for your school, please read the FAQs below and then email creativeengagement@complicite.org to enquire for more information, dates and prices.
FAQs
We don’t offer one-off student workshops unless you have previously participated in Devising in the Secondary Classroom programme, or a Complicité teacher CPD workshop. We believe it is important to provide teachers with the additional tools and context around Complicité’s work to support their students’ devising journeys after our workshops. This can either come from participating in a teacher CPD, or through embedding the work with students over several workshops.
We recommend a three-hour workshop for secondary school students.
We lead workshops for a minimum of six and a maximum of 26 students. This helps us to ensure that students are benefitting fully from their time with our Associates. We are happy to work with combined classes of students, provided there are fewer than 26 in total.
A teacher CPD can last anywhere from three to five hours and is designed to give teachers some groundwork to further support their students on their devising journey before and after a student workshop. A minimum of eight teachers are required to participate in a CPD. Schools are welcome to open this workshop up to teachers from partner or neighbouring schools to reach the required number of participants.
Our workshops are designed to help give students tools and a framework for creating devised work. Students will be given short devising tasks to practise implementing some of the skills they are taught. These can then be used in future classes to create new work. Our workshops are not intended to provide specific directorial advice for students’ assessed work.
Yes, we send our Associates all around the UK and internationally to lead school workshops. Any travel or accommodation required for workshops outside of London is charged in addition to the workshop cost.
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