Education
SRT is committed to offering the highest quality productions with an exciting and inspiring season targeting different audience groups from musical lovers to audiences with an interest in thought provoking plays. In recent years we have invested in building a solid platform and partnership with the educational sector, as we believe theatre has the power to educate and engage our youth to create creative thinkers and inspired citizens. SRT's productions aim to be a solid element of language and literature education.
Here are the different educational platforms that SRT has to offer:
SRT's The Young Co.
A two year acting training programme for 16-25 year-olds. Every year we see graduating students enter our industry and choose theatre as their path in life.
SRT's The Little Company
We reach over 40,000 young people with theatre that has an educational message. From issues like sibling rivalry, to respecting differences to issues of the environment each play comes with a free teacher's ressource to further enhance the key messaging in the classroom before or after the theatre visit.
Complimentary Teacher's Pack and Outreach Activities
Most of SRT's productions for adults and students in the secondary and tertiary educational institutions are provided with a Teacher's Pack and visits to the schools by our education team. In the coming year, we are planning to invest in a stronger platform in this area, and will include elements of training opportunities for teachers.
Holiday programmes
Launched in 2011 with programmes for students as well as the acting community.
Master classes
All programmes will be announced on our website, in the SRT newsletter and on NAC's portal.
Richard's RAMPAGE
The Young Co. actors together with Kevin Spacey and the cast from Richard III.
Twenty emerging actors from SRT’s The Young Co. were given tickets to see Richard III and had to also each prepare a Shakespearean monologue in preparation for a bespoke workshop with Kevin Spacey. During the workshop, Kevin worked with them on a one-on-one basis, giving advice and direction on their pieces. It was truly a remarkable experience and the Young Co. is grateful to have been part of it. All tickets were sponsored by Audi.
About Rampage:
Richard’s Rampage is a bespoke creative learning project that will follow Kevin Spacey around the world as he takes on the title role of Richard III. It is a project that has the exchange of ideas, talent and creativity at the heart of the process. It will enable over 1,000 students and 200 emerging actors from nine countries and across three continents to connect with one another, experience extraordinary workshops, see a world class theatre production and work with Kevin himself.
It is the first initiative to be supported entirely by the newly formed Kevin Foundation Spacey Foundation whose aim is to build on the long-standing commitment of its namesake to arts education and the nurturing of emerging talent.
Kevin Spacey says:
“Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate enough to have success as a stage and screen actor, running the film production company, Triggerstreet, and as Artistic Director of one of the world's best-loved theatres - London's Old Vic.
This might not have been the case had I not had the support of some incredible teachers and mentors along the way, particularly in my formative years.
One such mentor was Jack Lemmon who had a phrase that he used all the time that I've now adopted as my own and that of my Foundation. He believed that if you've been successful in your chosen path, then 'sending the elevator back down' is your obligation.
Richard’s Rampage is our first ‘elevator’ project allowing us to reach a hundreds of young people, injecting a sense of excitement about the living theatre, as well as being able to use theatrical tools and artists as an education medium. The idea is to leave each destination with a sense of how to continue the work on their own long after we have gone.”