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By Little Actors Theatre Company
Little Actors Theatre would like to present a community theatre arts festival in the rural market town of Neston. To be be inclusive for the whole community & wider Cheshire West in the summer 2024.
The festival would include a variety of groups including children's theatre clubs, musical theatre groups, youth theatre, adult drama groups and other community groups. This will be performed over a weekend in Neston Town Hall to an audience of the wider community. The festival will celebrate the creativity and talent in the Neston and Cheshire West area. Keeping it local in the market town of Neston will ensure that there is access to theatre activities in an area where transport links to bigger cities and town are severely restricted. This will result in ease of access for residents who do not drive, especailly the elderly. The arts festival will also be offering opportunities to perform supported by theatre professionals. Community organisations such as the community centre and local churches will be offered collaboration opportunities as well as working in partnership with Neston Town Council. The festival will take place over a weekend in the summer at Neston Town Hall.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
1. Promoting creativity and talent in Neston and the wider county 2. Improved social cohesion 3. Participation in the arts improves health and well being 4. The participants of all ages will have the opportunity to perform their material to a public audience. This gives a sense of value to their efforts. 5. As a small rural community, access to the arts can be difficult to achieve so having a participatory theatre festival delivered in that community provides more creative opportunities for engagement. 6. Little Actors' technical and staging equipment will enhance the production values of the space available. The community will benefit from intergenerational interaction 7. Local coffee shops and other businesses would benefit from increase footfall as external groups come to the town to perform and bring their own audience with them. 8. Visiting groups will be faciltiated to stage their work in the town by Little Actors experienced staff.
Steps to get it done:
The Artistic Director of Little Actors has just completed the MA Applied Theatre at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Therefore she and the company are demonstrating a committment to developing and enhancing theatre arts provision in Neston. In particular by cultivating and growing a positive relationship with Neston Town Council which manages the Town Hall venue, so as to develop theatre access in the town. This festival will bring a much needed collaborative and participatory theatre event to the town. It will aim to involve as many people as possible as performers, volunteers and audience.
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VolunteerLittle Actors Theatre Company is an award winning community theatre based in Neston. All workshops are led by professional actor facilitators and the company is based in the Town Hall in the former Post Office space. Presentations are staged in the Town Hall's main space using the stage and also a range of our own theatre equipment, including portable lighting and sound speaker.
As a Registered Charity, Little Actors offers a range of activities and events in the community. To ensure inclusion and access for all, 50% discounts or FREE places are offered for low income families (depending on funding levels available). Little Actors works with an ethos of access for all and improving health and wellbeing through participation in the arts, plus building social cohesion through social creative environments. As well as enriching the quality of life of the wider community.
Community theatre work includes:
Theatre Club for primary school children - comprising drama and musical theatre workshops for the under 12s. Workshops lead to end of term and community presentations.
InterACT Youth Theatre - they annually work with National Theatre Connections (new writing for new people). For ages 12+. This group also enters productions in the Leverhulme Drama Festival.
Theatre Tots for pre-school children and their carers/parents
Brightlights Theatre Company (adults) - they create work for the Leverhulme Drama Festival and community performances. The group aims to help reduce social isolation and loneliness.
Adult Dance classes
Small scale touring theatre - our team of professional actors create work to tour to small scale venues and schools.
2022 saw the introduction of Craft-A-Noons as part of our Warm Space offering.
During the pandemic, Little Actors delivered much of its work online via Zoom. Many video and audio projects were completed and can be seen on the You Tube channel - Little Actors Theatre Company - YouTube.
As a public service we sell stamps to anyone who wanders into our office looking for the old post office and we sign post them to where they need to be!
Project Owner: Little Actors Theatre Company The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
