Page-to-Stage Workshops

When a scheduled Next Stage production is on a GCSE, A1 or A2 syllabus, we can offer pupils a combined performance and workshop experience. Before seeing the play, students are invited to take part in an hour’s session with actors, directors and technicians. Pupils can ask questions about the particular play and the key issues it addresses. Actors talk about the interpretation of their roles, and directors explain the implications of staging and production.

SAT Workshops

Next Stage actors visit local schools with workshops based on Year 9 Shakespeare texts. The key scenes and speeches are brought to life and pupils participate in memorable and innovative activities to enrich classroom teaching.

Blending tragedy and comedy together in the most disconcerting manner, the mordant wit of Ibsen’s play is still as compelling and as daring as its intriguing heroine. In a world of sexual and emotional repression, no other heroine can defy audience expectations as completely as Hedda.  Aristocratic psychopath with pistol?  Or woman determined to define herself - herself alone?

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Next Stage is offering school parties discounted tickets at £5, plus 1 free ticket for every 10 bought.   

On Wednesday 12^th March, before the production, there will be a Page-to-Stage Workshop from 5.30 – 7 pm, where pupils have the chance to meet actors, members of the production team and the Director, who have worked on the play.  This is an opportunity for students to ask questions, hear in-depth analysis of the play and to gain insights into the interpretation of key scenes. In the course of the workshop, the actors and director are proposing discussing with pupils the following key issues: 

·        How does the theme of power make itself felt (in different ways) amongst the women of the play? Amongst the men of the play?

·        In his notes for the play, Ibsen asserts that “in Hedda there is deep poetry at bottom” – does that claim make sense to you?

·        The power of conformity, of social convention, is felt everywhere in the play – is that just a dated, Victorian theme? Or does it have any relevance for us now?

 The cost of the Page-to-Stage Workshop plus play ticket is £6 per pupil, with 1 free ticket for every 10 bought.   

To book tickets for your pupils please: Call 01225 428600 or Email nextstagebath@aol.com