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Freda Manweiler, Company Manager, Smashing Times Theatre Company Ltd,Coleraine House, Coleraine Street, Dublin 7, Ireland.T: + 353 (0) 1 8656613 Email:[email protected] Web: www.smashingtimes.ie
Smashing Times is a professional theatre company involved in performance, training and participation. The work of the company is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement.
Smashing Times Artistic Processes
Theatre Workshops
Living Theatre Commission of
New Work
Creative Seminars and Symposiums
Storytelling Workshops
Professional Theatre and
Multi-disciplinary Performances
Professional Outreach
Interviews Post-Show Discussions
Excursion into the Intuitive
Actors Ensemble
Smashing Times Theatre Company Innovative, projects that promote social justice through high quality artistic processes
Merges art, culture and politics to interact and engage with contemporary society and the world we live in
Uses theatre processes to engage community in educational activities.
Smashing Times Artistic Sources
Constantin Stanislavski
Michael Chekhov
Augusto Boal
Jerzy Grotowski Viola Spolin Yoshi Oida
Stella Adler Anne Bogart
Patsy Rodenburg
Projects
• Artists for Civic Action
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Artists for Civic Action presented by Smashing Times Theatre Company
Grafton Street Procession
Artists for Civic Action presented by Smashing Times Theatre Company
Theatre is a Weapon - Augusto Boal
Artists for Civic Action presented by Smashing Times Theatre Company
Acting for Peace – Using theatre and film to address a legacy of conflict and promote non-violence
Uprising scripted by Tara Mc Kevitt presented by Smashing Times Theatre Company
Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy presented by Smashing Times Theatre Company
Smashing Times Peace Building Workshop
Smashing Times Peace Building Workshop
Acting for the Future – Using theatre to promote positive mental health and suicide prevention
Testimonies presented by Smashing Times Theatre Company
Exploring social issues with sensitivity and depth, the plays are true theatre, reaching out and embracing their audiences
The Irish Times
European Partnerships
• First Experience of co-ordinating a small Grundtvig Learning partnership.
• Sharing the skills and experiences of using drama for language Learning to engage with Adult Learners
• Some Teachers found including drama a challenge.
Puppet Workshop
Innovation through Partnership • Grundtvig Multilateral Project • Migrants Integrating Kit
• Working as a partner to develop a drama workshop to promote good financial competencies with Migrants and Immigrants.
• What is the intersection between finance and drama ? Language learing and understanding finance.
• Can the larger adult education community benefit, through EPALE
The Power Point Presentation
• We become very familiar in the way we work
• Explaining a drama process in a power point presentation• We gained a deeper learning about ourselves
• Moving people to get on their feet and explore the issues in a physical and emotional way.
• Finding ways to evaluate the drama process to meet the needs of the project.
Drama for Change • Cross Sector of groups working in Adult Education
• To develop a training curriculum to provide adult educators with the skills necessary to work with young people and adults through a creative medium in order to promote social inclusion, gender equality and anti-racism work.
• The project will develop a curriculum and a toolbox of resources available on-line.
Drawing on expertise
• Firstly drawing on your own expertise• Experience working in Northern Ireland and Border Counties
• Partnering with expertise with partners from other disciplines
• Media and Publicity • Language teaching – strong pedagogical approach• Trade Union employment education – committed to the issues
and broad links for dissemination of project outputs.
• Greater understanding of what is happening on Continental Europe
Women War and Peace
• Europe for Citizens funded project. • Role of Women in Europe from WW2 to the present and the power
of the EU in promoting Peace and Gender Equality today
• Using theatre, film and political activism, this project raise awareness of the formation of the EU, it’s history and diversity and its role today in promoting peace, gender equality, cultural diversity and the well being of all its citizens equally.
• Partners include – Two Universities from Germany, and Poland• One Trade Union from Spain and Ireland a Theatre Company.
The physical is the known and through it we may find our way to the unknown, the intuitive and perhaps beyond to the human spirit itself.
Viola Spolin