Menagerie create educational and professional development workshops around our productions.  We are always open to invitations for one-off workshops so please contact us if you have questions or proposals on office@menagerie.uk.com

Recently we put on a  new writing masterclass with David Edgar one of England’s finest playwrights at Hotbed 2010. The masterclass was on the structure of scenes and was attended by students from Cambridgeshire. Also Steve Waters gave a talk on his most recent book The Secret Life of Plays.

Two of our productions previuosly had very different educational packages.  For Correspondence (Autumn 2008), we developed an interactive workshop for further and higher education students which explored the role of design within the show.  It proved very successful in engaging them with all aspects of the production and how a single visual or musical idea can influence the creative process.

For the tour of Out of Your Knowledge (2007), playwright Steve Waters designed a workshop for writers which mirrored the very process of how we made the play.  We have taken this as the seeds for a brand new education project which we are developing with regional partners.

We are currently developing plans for long-term collaboration with Anglia Ruskin University Drama Department.  This will involve teaching workshops, creating internships and providing opportunities for students to gain experience of working with a professional company.