Mainstream's theatre-in-education company has been touring throughout Greater Manchester for a number of years with performance-based projects on a variety of important issues.
Each TIE programme includes a short performance of a play that has been specially-written and directed by Mainstream's in-house creative team and delivered by a group of professional actor-teachers and an experienced facilitator. Each programme has different additional elements to accompany the performance, which range from a hotseating session and a printed teachers' pack to a full day of drama-based activities around the topic culminating in a performance by pupils to the rest of the school. Each programme has been put together with careful consultation with the commissioning groups and extensive research. Our current and past projects have covered subjects such as drugs, alcohol, bullying and street crime, and all have been received with great enthusiasm by pupils, teachers and experts from the police and local authorities.
Each programme is usually booked as a block of performances in a number of schools in a particular area by the local police schools' liaison department or local authority.
We always welcome enquiries from police, health authorities, local authorities or other bodies about our existing productions or about the possibility of creating a new programme on a different subject.