Secondary School Projects

• The Courtyard Student Company
• ARTiculate Newsletters
• Secondary INSET Sessions
• Year 10 & 11 Drama Day
• Arts Career Convention

The Courtyard is a key educational resource for Herefordshire. Working extensively with schools and colleges throughout the county and beyond we provide:  

• Bespoke workshops

• INSET sessions for teachers

• Funding for transport for Herefordshire schools to Educational Events

Education Extra! A range of education packages to support specific shows including teacher packs and production-related workshops.

For further information on our projects for secondary schools such as The Courtyard Student Company and Year 11 Drama Day please click on the link above.

 

Forthcoming Productions

Nursing Lives

Vamos Theatre brings together a number of ex-Trestle Theatre members to create Nursing Lives, a full-mask theatre production alive with visual inventiveness, evocative music and song, physical theatre and 1940s dance sequences.  The work originates from the true stories of nurses at the former Worcester Royal Infirmary. At its heart, Nursing Lives is a human story that celebrates nurses at work and play during the years of World War II. 

In 1939 Florence is a young trainee nurse thrown directly into the harsh realities of work on the ward. She encounters the wrath of Sister Martin; endures and enjoys the pranks of fellow nurses, falls in love with her soldier sweetheart, Johnny; and confronts the heart wrenching inequalities in the use of the new super drug penicillin.....will her dream of saving lives come true?

Nursing Lives is funny, touching, at times harrowing, but always uplifting and unforgettable.  It is designed to appeal to audiences of all ages (8-80 years).

Tickets: £10 schools + free coach
To book your tickets contact our Box Office on 01432 340 555

National Dance Company Wales

Dance just does not get any better than this.

The world’s hippest choreographers have created two breathtaking new dances with National Dance Company Wales.

Itzik Galili’s new commission is a ravishing fusion of incise dance, a driving new score and intoxicating lighting that will have you gasping for more.

Stephen Petronio’s new work is bursting with the New Yorker’s love affair with fashion, physicality, bold music and passion for movement, infused with a unique fresh flavour of Wales.

Tickets: £various + free coach
To book your tickets contact our Box Office on 01432 340 555

Burn My Heart

Set during the Mau Mau uprising in 1950’s Kenya and the ensuing bloody State of Emergency, two boys’ lives are changed forever as their friendship and loyalty are blown apart by fear and betrayal.
Drawing on African music and movement styles, combined with a powerful mix of text and physical story-telling theatre, Burn My Heart is a fast-paced, devastating, and highly relevant story, not to be missed!

Burn My Heart is based on the novel by award winning author Beverley Naidoo and adapted by playwright Rina Vergano.

“a tale of betrayal that does indeed burn your heart.” - Sunday Times

Tickets: £8 school + free coach
To book tickets contact our Box Office on 01432 340 555

The Sum of it All

Stanley Ayers’ humdrum existence is transformed when he meets a young woman who introduces him to life. Stanley has always had aspirations of success in business and his anonymity at work has always been a cause of distress. When offered the opportunity to impress his boss he cannot resist. His choice costs him his girlfriend and his futile attempts to regain her love lead to despair and retreat.
 
The performance confronts a subject explored many times throughout the history of theatre; to be or not to be? We have a mesmerising curiosity with this macabre subject yet in everyday life it remains a relative taboo, as Dan Bell of BBC news says “If suicide is the second most serious public health issue for young men, why don't we know about it?”
 
The performance blends physical characterisation, delicate storytelling, integrated technology and choreographed physical sequences. Anomic use all of the elements of the performance to tell the story in the most visually and
aurally stimulating way possible. The combination and reinvention of stylistic elements helps to contribute to the performance’s visual impact, creating an eclectic, visual feast that all audiences will enjoy.

Tickets: £10 schools + free coach
To book your tickets please contact our Box Office on 01432 340 555

Aladdin

The Courtyard’s 13th Annual Pantomime Is On-sale now!

Following the massive success of last year’s Beauty & the Beast, The Courtyard presents one of the most popular pantomimes of all time.

We bring you the traditional story of Aladdin and his magical lamp, all your panto favourites are there - goodies, baddies, friendship, adventure, songs and dance - filled to the brim with jokes and laughter, all with a familiar Herefordshire twist.

For more information on dates, times and prices click here.