Past performances
Stourbridge Town Hall Production
Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th June 2009
Wolverhampton Disability Arts Festival
Tuesday 2nd to Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Brighton Fringe Festival, May 2008
Tuesday 20th May 2008 to Saturday 24th May 2008
Venue: Dorset Gardens Methodist Church
Stourbridge Town Hall Production
(includes rehearsals)
Monday 23rd to Friday 27th June 2008
Days and two evenings
Worcester Theatre Festival
Saturday 12th April 2008
Dudley Festival of Music, Dance and Drama
Saturday 23rd or Sunday 24th February 2008
Saturday 15th or Sunday 16th March 2008
Morton Hall Girls School, Oswestrey
Saturday 1st March 2008
Mencap District Meeting, Weoley Castle
Tuesday 5th February 2008
International Day for Disabled People
Oldbury, Smethwick
Monday 3rd December 2007
Visit to Sweden
Motala
Sunday 11th May to Saturday 26th May 2007
Dudley College
For Disability Week
Monday 23rd April 2007
Dudley Concert Hall
Viva Musica Concert, 18th Anniversary
Saturday 28th April 2007
Worcestershire Theatre Festival
Evesham Arts Centre
Saturday 31st March 2007
Dudley Festival
Dudley College
Saturday 24th March, Sunday 25th March 2007
Gentlemen Songsters Concert
Stourbridge Town Hall
Saturday 10th February 2007, 7.30pm
Dare To Be Different
(Mencap Performance Showcase)
Oakengates Theatre, Telford
Friday 15th September 2006, 7.00pm
Performance: We Are The Dreamers
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Venue to be confirmed
August 13th to August 20th 2006
Performance: We Are The Dreamers
Stourbridge Town Hall
June 14th &15th 2006, 7.30pm
and June 16th 2006, 1.30pm
Performance: We Are The Dreamers (Extract)
Dudley Festival of Music, Drama & Dance
Dudley College
18th & 19th March 2006. Time to be arranged.
Performance: We Are The Dreamers
Worcestershire Theatre Festival
Evesham Arts Centre
11th March 2006, 1.00pm
Performance: We Are The Dreamers (Extract)
The Gentleman Songsters Concert
Dudley Concert Hall
17th December 2005, 7.30pm
Performance: The Doors (Extract)
Stourbridge Town Hall
22nd and 23rd June 2005
Performance: The Doors (Extract)
St. Thomas's Church, Stourbridge
14 May 2005
Festivals - Performances
Dudley Festival of Music, Drama and Dance
19th and 20th March 2005
Worcestershire Theatre Festival
9th April 2005
Performance: The Doors (Extract)
Transitional Fayre - Stafford College
12.00 - 12.30pm
1.00pm - 1.30pm
Saturday 26th February 2005
Dudley Concert Hall
11 December 2004
with 'The Gentleman Songsters'
Centennial Centre, Birmingham
International Day of Disabled People
03 December 2004 (4.30pm - 5.00pm)
Edinburgh Fringe Festival - 'The Wrong Garden'
8 to 14 August 2004
Augustines Edinburgh
Dudley Disability Arts Festival
Date tbc July 2004
Netherton Arts Centre
Dudley Arts Council Show Case
1 or 2 July 2004
Dudley Castle
Annual Production - The Wrong Garden
23 and 24 June 2004
Stourbridge Town Hall
Performance of The Wrong Garden
20 April 2004
Zion Church Halesowen
Worcestershire theatre Festival 'The Wrong Garden’
3 April 2004
Evesham Arts Centre
Dudley Festival of Music, Drama and Dance
28 March 2004
Dudley College
Dudley Festival of Music, Drama and Dance
13 March 2004
Dudley College
International Convention Centre Birmingham
Opening performance for Association of Colleges Annual Conference
Dudley Festival of Music, Drama and Dance
Drama & Dance/Drama entries
11 November 2003
'Side By Side' at the Fringe
Summer 2002
The 'Side by Side' theatre group produced a slick and professional performance of 'Prometheus' at the 2002 summer’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Margaret (Director of the Makaton vocabulary Development project) and Ian Walker attended two of their performances at the Fringe and an article appeared in the Scotsman written by James Mulligan, "I doubt I’ll see another Fringe Company playing with as much heartfelt commitment and sheer pleasure as this group of learning disabled actors from Stourbridge. Come the curtain call to this retelling of the ‘Prometheus’ and other myths, the winning smiles were picket fence wide. The very well rehearsed dozen or so actors mime and dance, play several roles each, and cope well with masses of costume changes and some quite intricate stage business."
The performance had incorporated mime and some Makaton signing using key signs, and was accompanied by a voice over narration of different speakers. The actors showed skills in including the audience and used pauses to develop the maximum effect.