Make The Young Company Theatre
​your next Artistic Collaborator 
in 2020.

Some of our most popular workshops for secondary students include:​

• Headstart to High School / Middle School
• Social and Emotional Learning Workshops
• Communication Workshops
• Shakespeare for the English or Drama Classroom
• Public Speaking skills
• Group Devising
• Monologue Skills / Solo Performance
• Acting Skills & Scenework
• Approaches to Acting (Boal, Brecht, Stanislavski)
• Children’s Theatre
• Comedy / Clowning
• Commedia dell’arte / Panto
• Black Comedy
• Verbatim Theatre
• Site-Specific & Street Theatre
• Political / Protest Theatre
• Digital Storytelling

• Musical Theatre
• Voice in Theatre
• Roving Theatre / Entertainment
• Acting for Film and Television
• Devising Techniques
• Music theatre (singing / acting / dancing)
• Play-building
• Screen acting
• Screen directing
• Australian Gothic
• Costume design
• Make up (stage and screen)
• Set design
• Filmmaking and editing
• Stage Management

Our Education Team specialises in providing unique theatre experiences especially tailored to your needs. You can choose from our list of popular Australian curriculum-linked workshops or we can work with you to create a bespoke program targeting your chosen outcomes. All of our workshop programs can be scaled to suit your timetable and budget and can be delivered either in your school or at The Young Company Theatre.
 
Make TYC Education your next artistic collaborators. 

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TYC READING CORNER

YOUR ELUSIVE CREATIVE GENIUS

Elizabeth Gilbert on Your elusive creative genius. Forget the fact that she wrote Eat, Pray, Love and concentrate on instead on Gilbert's meditation on the maddening capriciousness of the creative process. She's great on the dangers of the word "genius", and also good on the importance of showing up to work every day, so you're there if inspiration does happen to strike.

Read more here

HOW THEATRE CAN SAVE THE WORLD

By its very nature, the theatre demands inclusion, cooperation, responsibility, and coming to grips with one’s emotions—even when it’s simply playing a role. “This is powerful medicine for the teenager,” Rachel Harry muses. For Rachel, art requires creativity and the confidence that comes from outside-the-box thinking, even when the results are a few lumps and bruises.

Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Here are the top ten things you need to know about The Young Company Theatre and Arts Based Education:

1. TYC's Education Program has been empowering young people across Far North Queensland for over ten years.

2.  Engaging with art is essential to the human experience. The arts challenge us with different points of view, compel us to empathize with “others,” and give us the opportunity to reflect on the human condition

3. Arts are monumental in helping children and young people maintain a positive mindset

4. Hands on workshops help to break the ice between new students and form lifelong bonds

5. Proven to be a significant tool in support students social, emotional and learning processes

6. Studies show that a substantial increase in arts educational experiences has remarkable impact on students’ academic, social, and emotional outcomes. 

7. Direct links to goal two of the Melbourne Declaration

8. Many studies have published findings that reveal how integral the arts are to students building and becoming part of a community and developing a positive societal point of view.

9. The Young Company Theatre is a locally based regional theatre company who has close links to the community.

10.   Taking part in theatre is overwhelmingly positive for young people's mental health in both the long and short term, according to new research by the Australian Theatre for Young People. According to the report, youth theatre developed participants' skills in storytelling (80 per cent), improvising (78 per cent) and writing (54 per cent).