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Overview Productions Workshops

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Wasted
A theatre in health education programme about binge drinking........
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Genetic Futures Website
"
An excellent resource for teaching 21st Century Science GCSE. "
Y Touring's new website approved by the Natinal Grid for Learning

 

 

  The Projectionist
Available 1st September
The Projectionist Laura FitzGerald's
new play for Y Touring
about Privacy and Surveillence
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Full Time
8th September - 17th October
Full Time is Rachel Wagstaff's
new play for Y Touring about the
culture of football

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Nobody Lives Forever
27th October - 19th December
Judith Johnson new play
for Y Touring about
Stem Cells

 

 

 
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Y Health


“When Willy was asked how he felt about being gay, he said “he was glad to be alive. He was proud of being gay, proud of being black and proud of being a man.” All my students clapped spontaneously.”
Jackie Peaty, Head of PSE Lampton School


Y Touring is Central YMCA’s award winning touring Theatre company based in Kings Cross , London. Y Touring was the first theatre company to work in the arena of health promotion/education.

Since the company was founded in 1989 we have worked in partnership with health promotion agencies and arrange of charities including Barnardo’s, Crusaid and the Wellcome Trust to research and produce theatre in health education productions and training workshops for schools, colleges, young offenders centres, community arts centres, and YMCAs throughout the U.K.

Productions 1989 -2008

Full Time by Rachel Wagstaff a play and workshop about football and sexism, racism and homopobia

Every Breath a new play by award winning playwright Judith Johnson that explores the serious social, moral, scientific and political questions raised by the use of animals in medical research.

The Silencer by Rhiannon Tise about climate change

Mind the Gap by Abi Bown, a play and debate about brain disorders, alzheimers, memory loss and post traumatic stress for secondary schools

Wasted by Rhiannon Tise, a play and workshop about binge drinking and use of drugs for secondary students

Learning to Love the Grey, a play and debate about the ethics of theraputic cloning

Sweet As You Are by Jonathan Hall, a play and debate about the ethics of genetically modified crops

Double the Trouble by Judith Johnson a play and workshop about parenting for parents and teenagers

Dear DD by Judith Johnson a play about teenage pregnancy for secondary schools students

My Friend Willy by Robert Rigby a play and workshop about sexuality and relationships for secondary school students

Cracked by Nicola Baldwin a play and debate about depression and mental illness for secondary schools

The Gift by Nicola Baldwin a play about genetic selection for secondary schools and adults

Connected by Judith Johnson a play and workshop about teenage pregnancy

Memory Box by Pete Johnson a play and workshop about HIV/AIDS, grief and loss for primary schools

The Inner Circle by Patricia Loughrey a play and workshop about HIV/AIDS for secondary school

 

if you need any further information, email our Tour Producer David Jackson.

Photo of Darren Saul and Ben Langley in Robert Rigby's My Friend Willy
Darren Saul and Ben Langley in Robert Rigby's My Friend Willy

 

 
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