East End kids stage play about time when fun is outlawed
TEENAGERS have taken over a London theatre to stage their own play at the weekend about a time when having fun is banned. Some 30 youngsters from the East End and from Bermondsey are staging a production about a sterile world where over-protective parents have outlawed play
TEENAGERS have taken over a London theatre to stage their own play at the weekend about a time when having fun is banned.
Some 30 youngsters from the East End and from Bermondsey are staging a production about a sterile world where over-protective parents have outlawed play.
It tells the story of youngsters who escape their restrictive surroundings to find themselves in a fairground, where they rediscover the meaning of fun.
The youngsters are performing at the Unicorn's Weston Theatre near London Bridge on Saturday and Sunday (August 8 and 9), working with a professional arts team.
You may also want to watch:
The Unicorn is a year-round scheme for 10 to 16 who live or go to school in Tower Hamlets and Southwark. They don't need drama experience, just enthusiasm to take part.
For more information and images contact:
Most Read
- 1 Teenager found dead in Victoria Park
- 2 Driver arrested after police 'drugs patrol' stops car in WhitechapelÂ
- 3 Two in five people in Tower Hamlets may have had Covid-19
- 4 Post deliveries in east London hit by Covid crisis among Royal Mail staff
- 5 Drug and alcohol abuse by Tower Hamlets parents and children soars
- 6 'I can save the planet with my seaweed' scientist in east London claims
- 7 Leyton Orient sign Dan Kemp on a permanent deal from West Ham United
- 8 Disgraceful management of the pandemic
- 9 Leyton Orient boss Embleton expecting more movement in the transfer window
- 10 'Laptop bonanza' for schoolchildren in Poplar to help survive lockdown gloom
Rachel Stroud E: rachel.stroud@unicorntheatre.com T: 020 7645 0545
