Fire the Imagination with Affordable and Engaging Drama Workshops for Children and Adults

There are few things more rewarding than helping people, particularly children, to express themselves creatively, whether that is through acting, singing or creative writing. With a busy school curriculum to follow, how often do children get to express themselves in a non-academic way?

Let your students astound you by booking one of our impressive range of creative workshops, including drama, creative writing and storytelling workshops. Learning to give voice to the inner self through acting or creating art is one of the most liberating life experiences and can provide lasting benefits, especially to those who may lack in confidence. From mime workshops to musical theatre, Trap Media can deliver something a bit different for your school.

Dramatic performances are also an effective way to enable children to explore difficult social issues in a safe environment. Learning to handle inter-personal conflict, including bullying, is an ongoing issue both inside and outside of school. We can provide novel methods of tackling difficult social problems by introducing novel strategies like open forum theatre or role-playing.

Of course, our drama and creative workshops are not exclusively for children. Giving employees a day away from the office, to learn circus skills or Shakespearean acting, for example can have multiple benefits, including increased morale, better team-working and enhanced confidence when giving presentations.

As an example, we offer:

  • Creative Writing Workshops
  • Musical Theatre Workshops
  • Acting and Spoken Word Workshops
  • Mime Workshops
  • Indian/African/ Folk story-telling Workshops
  • Improvisation Workshops
  • Shakespeare Workshops
  • Physical Theatre Workshops
  • PSHE Workshops
  • …and more!

Learning by Doing

A lot of classroom-based activities rely on children’s logical processing skills. While this form of teaching plays a major part in school life, many children benefit from being given time and space to experiment.

Following our workshop, some of the benefits that you might start to notice, are:

  • Increased Creativity – Once children learn how to work with their imagination, they never forget. Our creative writing workshops help to unlock the talent within every child.
  • Improved Behaviour – By finding acceptable ways to express their feelings, children will be less frustrated and less likely to misbehave.
  • Enhanced Self-Confidence – Achievement in life is rooted in self-confidence. Our drama workshops focus on interaction and helping participants discover the creativity that lies within them.
  • More Teamwork– Children will get used to working with one another towards a specific goal. This skill can be transferred to the classroom.

We always place great emphasis on inclusion; participants will get the opportunity to learn and reproduce the skills they have gained in the workshops, leaving them feeling enlightened, confident and inspired.

Give your students a taste of the West End, with a fully interactive, educational musical theatre workshop. After this fun and creative workshop, they will appreciate how music, voice and movement can be woven into a unique art form that can both tell a story and express characters’ wishes and feelings.

Musical films like Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang still captivate children today. With talks, games and lots of singing and dancing, our musical theatre workshops offer children the chance to create and perform their own musical masterpiece.

As you will know, the National Curriculum provides non-statutory guidelines for the provision of Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE). 2020 Effect will help you enact these guidelines, while adding an extra dimension that will appeal to children.

If there are particular issues that you want to address, for example bullying, sex education, gun and knife crime or substance and alcohol abuse, Trap Media are experienced in tackling difficult subjects in a novel way. For example, our expert facilitators will create thought-provoking role-plays, or an open forum theatre, with students suggesting courses of action for the actors to take in a range of social situations.

By raising tricky subjects within the supportive and positive environment of a PSHE workshop, some students will feel more comfortable in talking through their own conflicts and discussing solutions.

Roll up! Roll up! The fascinating history and impressive skills of the circus make this workshop a real crowd-puller. Participants will learn about the foundational skills, including concentration and self-awareness on which the mastery of juggling, acrobatics and other circus feats are built.

They will then get to grips with the techniques themselves, from juggling, riding a unicycle and using the hula hoop to mastering the art of spinning plates. After their induction, it’s time for the fun to really begin as participants show off their skills in a live circus performance.

Resisting a clear definition, physical theatre is a fascinating mix of styles and approaches that challenges the distinctions between actor and audience, theatre and dance. Participants will learn some basic skills and develop an awareness of their own body and its relationship to the surrounding space.

They will practise working collaboratively with others as they work towards a live performance at the end. Since physical theatre relies heavily on improvisation rather than scripting, the results can be truly amazing to see.