SEND adults in the spotlight for Jubilee
A GROUP of organisations collaborated to help special educational needs adults have their turn in the spotlight.
Red Sauce Theatre CompanycollaboratedwithFilmCrew 4U CIC, Global Music Visions CIC and Owl XL CIC to help stageaperformancecommemorating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Theperformance,stagedon June6and7inPortsmouthand Drayton,wasmadeupofadults withspecialeducationalneeds and disabilities.
Titled ‘The Promise’, the show was based around the speech that the Queen gave to the Empire and Commonwealth on her 21st birthday while she was still a princess.
FounderofRedSauceTheatre Company, Rachel Goodall, said: ‘We’ve seen the cast come leaps and bounds over the six weeksofthisproject,theirconfidence has improved, they’ve become great friends and have learned so much about the entire production of a live performance.
‘Withoutthiscollaboration, this would not have been possible, so I’m hugely grateful to Billy Stevenson and the team from Film Crew 4U, and David Shervill and the team from Global Music Visions.’
The collaboration, which receivedfundingfromtheArts Council England Let’s Create Jubilee Fund, and the HampshireandIsleofWightCommunity
Foundation, gave the cast an opportunity to learn about performing.
Film Crew 4U teaches people from disadvantaged backgrounds how to produce films, and filmed the rehearsals and final show to teach the cast about production.
Theconceptbehindtheperformance was to help the theatre group, the actors and the collaborative partners to learn new skills while building their confidence.