Penguin Acting uses Theatre in Education (TIE) work to empower children and young people to tackle important issues and explore their perceptions of the world around them.
We provide topical based performances alongside exploratory workshops to explore the themes raised in more depth. Our actors have the ability to build positive rapport and relationships with young audiences of all abilities.
Common topics include bullying, friendship and sexuality. However we can write customised scripts and devise tailor made workshops for delivery within your educational setting. We pride ourselves on providing high quality, innovative creative arts work. We also have a selection of successful pieces you can book.
We are currently working on our new piece for 2023 which is called “What’s the Harm?”. We have worked in conjunction with Honley High School to develop this engaging performance in line with the Year7/8 PSHCE curriculum. This piece explores the risks associated with sexting, sharing images digitally and via social media platforms.
We are based in West Yorkshire but are happy to travel across the UK to deliver preventative messages. Our productions are available to book directly and are competitively priced as we want to make theatre accessible to all.
Messages in Music
2022 brought our Theatre in Education production “Messages in Music”. This piece uses rap & spoken word to tackle extremism, conspiracy theory and fake news amongst teenagers.
Mitchell Wilson as Taylor
Kyle O’Gara as Kayden
Millie Ebanks as Liberty
Lou Hardy as Teacher
Lola’s Story
Lola’s Story is the sequel to ‘Bobby’ available from 2021. Bringing back some of the same relatable characters but the focus is on preventing young females from being drawn into child, criminal exploitation.
Funded by the Violence Reduction Unit 2021.
Bobby
Bobby follows the experiences of a 12-year-old boy who doesn’t recognise he is part of a gang until it is too late. This piece is in response to the increasing levels of youth, gang violence in Kirklees.
This piece has been touring schools since Sept 2019. We have presently reached over 6000 children.
We featured on BBC Look North on 3/12/19. We worked in partnership with Kirklees Youth Intervention Team and the Violence Reduction Unit.
Pathways
Pathways follows the lives of four very different young people. It aims to raise awareness of the vulnerabilities associated with radicalisation and extremism both on and offline.
The piece was successfully piloted in 2018 and has been re-funded to continue touring schools and colleges in 2019-20 and 2020-21. We worked in partnership with Kirklees Prevent Team and obtained our funding through the Home Office. It is worth noting that this has been continuously re-funded by the Home Office from 2018-2021.
