THE HATE PLAY
Performance length: 60 Minutes
Audience: Ideally suited for Years 8, 9 and 10
Audience number: Approximately 150
Venue: Ideally school hall with the audience on two sides
The Hate Play is supported by John Lyon's Charity and using public funding by Arts Council England.
Thank you to Harrow High School for hosting The Hate Play rehearsals.
COMING SOON
The Performance
This powerful performance explores the dynamics of teenage friendships and peer pressure and, through its unflinching portrayal of the devastating effects bullying can have on the emotional well-being, health and social cohesion of a group of young people, addresses directly and honestly the reality of bullying, specifically hate crime. These issues are explored through the loves, hates and power struggles of four teenagers. When the perpetrator of hate, Tan, pushes herself and her friends, Skate and Cal, too far, it leads to disastrous consequences for the victim, Vik.
Post-Performance Workshop
The performance is followed by a workshop with the entire audience, allowing them to engage fully with the themes and creative process of the play, and to articulate their response to what they have just witnessed. Key moments in the play are re-played with the direct involvement of students to explore the challenge of the timing and type of appropriate verbal and non-verbal interventions to produce a different outcome. In using theatre to confront and work through these issues, we’re challenging young people, including those who are neither victims nor bullies, to take up an active role in making their school environment a safer and happier place in which all can flourish.
Creative Writing Workshop
Further engagement of the students with the members of the company and the issues the play explores is provided by creative writing workshops. Students who attend, having seen the play in their schools, will be encouraged to share their own experiences of dis-harmony and to articulate their opinions about a way forward, creatively in poetry, prose, creative writing or monologues.
The Symposium.
Participating schools will be represented by staff/students who will share the outcomes of their creative writing workshops and be given a platform to express their views on current issues such as crime rates, social cohesion, bullying and intolerance and how these are being dealt with in their communities. The Symposium will conclude with students working collaboratively to create a manifesto for change.
Gallery
THE COMPANY
TO BE ANNOUCED
CAST TO BE ANNOUNCED
TESTIMONIES
The play showed how much a person who gets bullied suffers and how to act towards bullying if you see it happen. I think the way they acted it was good because it involved us and showed us what we might do and could have done
“I also liked that we shared ideas and I enjoyed listening to other
people’s work. It was really inspiring and very worthwhile.”
“I think the way the actors stayed in character was really good and
also the way they expressed their emotions was exceptional.”