How is Ashcroft Community ?

When first starting the project i was slightly confused as to how Ashcroft was a community project in contrast to other groups in the schools who were working with different groups of the community each week. As our piece is a series of big performances to many children that we werent directly meeting i was confused as to how we were being involved in the community.

However since starting the project I have realised that due to our written piece along with attention to our audience that our peice is absoultly for the community. Our community is primary school children from year 4 to 6 if which some will never have seen or been to the theatre. Therefor just by performing to them we are unlocking a huge door to many of their lives. Ofcourse we cannot expect every child to love th show or suddelnly become in love with theatre if they were not before. However some of the children watching will have a new exciting expeirence that hopefully will influence there lives and open them up to things they didnt know possible. As an actress one of my most important things i must always consider is my audience and how I am acting to give them effect as when we perform it is to an audience and there feeling to the performance is essential. Meaning that our community is very much part of our piece.

Performing to so many children again enforces the community aspect to Ashcroft. We are essentially interacting with 2000 children, therefor a huge community of young people in croydon. Not only do are shows infulence a huge amount of people but also we will be holding workshops for groups of these children after the performances. This will give us the chance to directly work with the chidren and the children a chance to be directly involved in the play. We hope to be able to teach the kids part of our peice therefor meaning that theatre and arts is opened as a real opportunity to them.
Hopefully through this project we will be able to open up to children that never really thought of theatre and unlock creativity and passion in them. Even those who arnt passionate about theatre will hopefully have a really fun experience and recgonise that there are many teenagers that want to work with them and can help them to see exciting new things.