Our Work
What do we do at Thalia?
Thalia Theatre Company works with disabled people to help them develop their personal & social skills, basic skills (numeracy & literacy) communication, confidence, self esteem and improve their physical and mental health. We believe the arts are a stimulating way of learning and that everyone is able to develop and grow their skills and talents to help them work towards independence, volunteering and employment opportunities. To demonstrate how it is possible to develop all of these skills, Thalia has one employee who was a former member and is hoping to employ another former member in March 2009!
As part of our work we have a Community Outreach Programme where we take our company members into the community to share our skills and to educate people about disability. We run workshops for all kinds of people and organisations, not just disabled people. We also put together our ideas and create some wonderful, exciting theatre that shows non disabled people that we are all equal and we can all achieve great things!
We have one major annual performance at Norwich Playhouse Theatre and during the year we take part in festivals and other events and work in collaboration with other arts organisations and professional artists as well as working to develop our own skills.
Thalia Theatre Vocational Training Programme
In September 2009 Thalia will be launching a 3 year accredited training programme in ‘arts’ based learning. The programme can be accessed by anyone aged 18 and over with an interest in performance and theatre and who has basic literacy and numeracy skills to support the compilation of a portfolio of evidence. Areas covered: theatre, dance, music, visual art, poetry & storytelling, key skills (communication, literacy numeracy). On completion of the course trainees will be invited to form their own touring theatre group as a part of Thalia Theatre Company. For more information contact the Artistic Director. Training Programme Outline details and Application form available as PDF files. Click Outline and Application to open. Apply now!For any contact details please see Contact Us page.