All Our Heroes: WW1 Schools Project

Following our highly successful production of The Maharajah & Kohinoor, which has been touring since 2008, Zeroplus Theatre is bringing its brand new show this year – ALL OUR HEROES for schools and theatres for young audiences available from the end of April until spring 2016 for KS2 to KS4.

Kaka wants to know where his father is … so does his mother.

It has been months since they’ve last seen him

Several weeks later, they receive a letter from the trenches of the northwest frontier in France where he has been fighting for the British Army…

How did he get there? What was he doing there?

To mark the centenary of the First World War, ALL OUR HEROES explores the stories and perspectives of men from the Indian sub-continent who left their homes and families to fight for the British Raj in continents far, far away. Performed by a talented cast that brings physical theatre, verbatim accounts and vibrant story telling.

ALL OUR HEROES gives a tangible connection to the British Asian history and heritage it discusses through a follow-up workshop that we offer after each performance. It has been produced in association with Cranford Community College, New Art Exchange (Nottingham) and The Drum (Birmingham) with the same artistic team behind The Maharajah & Kohinoor.

Our project enables pupils to develop:

– An understanding of the British Asian involvement in WW1

– A sense of shared heritage to support Cultural Enrichment

– Knowledge about history linked to WW1

– Work together on sharing and making stories

– Creative approaches to researching and understanding History

 

SCHOOLS PACKAGE

This includes a 45-minute performance piece and a workshop for 45 minutes delivered by three artists during a school day with up to 25 children per workshop.

Fees: £400 per day (negotiable)

N.B. If your school would like to incorporate the performance as an assembly for the whole school in the morning, then please add £100.00 to this fee.

 

ZeroPlus Theatre is a Theatre in Education Company founded in 2008, a partnership between Zeroculture and The Drum (Birmingham).

It brings creative, dynamic and high quality productions that fire the imagination and provoke the minds of young audiences. Our work is based on original storytelling from the British south Asian sector, working particularly within faith-based communities, from which we add nurturing perspectives to the national education curriculum.

We use sensory, visual dramatic devices with evocative music to create simple engaging and accessible theatre. Our stories offer new, fresh and different perspectives to historical subjects as well as issues currently challenged by community cohesions. We wish to impress upon young minds our rich shared heritages that make up and resonate the cultural diversity of our communities.

Thoroughly enjoyed it, Our children would not usually have the opportunity to see a performance like this. The year 5 and 6 children enjoyed the workshop’

– Regents Park School, Birmingham on Maharajah & Kohinoor

 

Contact: Rabiyah K Latif

Education & Outreach Producer

E: rabiyah@zeroplustheatre.co.uk

M: 07791 042 609

More about us can be found on www.zeroplustheatre.co.uk