My CREATETour
Tees Valley and Fuel Theatre
For the last few weeks, from Tuesday 30th October to Friday 16th November, Rural Arts has been running it’s CREATE Tour project in Tees Valley. For the project we worked with eight young people from Tuned In! in Redcar to create a curtain-raiser piece that went on to tour alongside the show “Summit” from Fuel Theatre.
During the first week of the project Fuel Theatre’s facilitator, Toni Dee, helped the group create their show piece; “Imagine” with script writing workshops, drama warm-ups and show rehearsals.
She also visited two other venues during the week, to deliver taster workshop sessions for other young people living in the Tees Valley, including with Hope 4 East Cleveland as pictured below.
The fourth show was at Saltburn Arts, on Thursday 15th November. Our lovely ON Tour manager Jo, went along to the show. Again there were around 25 audience members that attended the show, this time with some of the Create Tour participants staying on to watch the Summit show after they had performed their curtain – raiser.
The performers were particularly excited to perform in such a beautifully traditional theatre right by the sea!
Some of the Create Tour group’s family and friends came along to the performance and said that they were “impressed with what the group had achieved in such a short space of time”
The fifth show was at Tuned In! in Redcar, for which previous Youth Development Officer at Rural Arts, Nicola, came along to for one more time to see off the project.
There were a lot of the CREATETour groups family and friends at the performance which provided the participants with a lovely and supportive atmosphere form the audience.
We also had the lovely Jenna interpreting “Imagine” for BSL audiences which added a great sense of inclusivity to the show.
We also had three people come along from Fuel Theatre, including writer of “Summit”, Andy Smith, as it was the last performance of the tour. They stayed behind to take part in the post show Q & A, to answer all the audience’s varied questions about the show.
