Big Brum Theatre

Big Brum Theatre In Education company, using theatre and drama alongside young people to make meaning of their lives and the world around them.

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'The Broken Bowl' by Edward Bond.
Touring Spring and Summer 2027.
For further details, see https://t.co/mKAwiX9O01

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@National_Drama Looks great!

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#NDMembers Research Champion Bursary
Are you interested to find out how Drama works in the classroom or how effective it is? Could £1,00 help you research the importance of drama? #AineLarkBursariesND🎭 apply here: https://t.co/hLShLSBSSA

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On Saturday our Youth Theatre, Little Brum, are sharing their devised play, ‘Gone’, set in 2040.

We want to thank all our funders and supporters for making this possible!

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Thanks to tour funders @ace_national @WestonFdn The Grimmitt Trust, The Sir Barry Jackson Trust, Lord Austin Trust, Hopkins & Sayer Charities, St James Place Foundation, George Fentham Charity, GJW Turner Trust, The Saintbury Trust, GH Collins Charity and Marsh Charitable Trust

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We have had a delightful time sharing Chris Cooper's three adaptations of 'The Little Red Cap’ and ‘Ruby’ with primary and secondary schools over the last year!
A huge thanks to the many children, teachers, and others who have been involved, and who have supported this work.

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We’re hiring! 📣

Join us as Senior Manager, Culture Recovery Fund Loans.

You’ll analyse financial performance, work closely with borrowers and support sustainable recovery across the sector.

Apply by 15 May!

👉 https://t.co/zprsCTsDQG

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Our Board of Trustees had their quarterly meeting last night. Big Brum is very lucky to have such a wealth of skills and experience from its nine trustees. https://t.co/4eBsBliC5g

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Hannah Pryal played Ruby on ‘The Little Red Cap’ and we are delighted to be welcoming her back for our next tour, ‘Stone Baby’. Hannah told us “I had an amazing time on ‘The Little Red Cap’ talking with the young people and hearing their perspectives on the story!”

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"How can the young survive in a world driven to consume them?"
The classic story of ‘The Stone Baby’ tours from Summer 2026.
https://t.co/rXALr3rh0U

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Our BCU placement students have been in rehearsals for ‘The Little Red Cap’ for 2 weeks! They’re enjoying “the very insightful process”!

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We are delighted that our recent ‘Trains of Thought’ event has been shared in the Solihull Observer, thank you for including us!

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Katie Mann joined Big Brum as a full time Actor-Teacher in 2024 after her university placement with us in 2023. She has been playing Mother on our ‘The Little Red Cap’ tour and will join our current placement students, on their tour of the same play, to step into the role again!

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This week we have welcomed two 2nd year Applied Theatre students from The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, BCU. Millie and Kian have joined us, on placement, where they will be rehearsing ‘The Little Red Cap’ before sharing it in a school. We are excited to have them with us!

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Before the Easter break the director and cast of ‘The Little Red Cap’ went to the University of Worcester to film the play with John Bradburn. We’re excited to see the finished result!

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The end of term marks the end of our ‘The Little Red Cap’ tour! We have had a wonderful time delivering the tour to schools across North Solihull and Birmingham. Thank you to all the venues involved!

Wishing you all a happy Easter from all of us here at Big Brum!

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Adam Nicholls has been playing the “big, bad, hungry wolf” in our ‘The Little Red Cap’ tour. This is Adam’s fifth tour for Big Brum after first joining us for ‘Over the Balcony’ in 2023.

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Daisy Eva Quick is one of Big Brum’s full time Actor-Teachers and she is currently performing as ‘Jacob’ in our secondary school tour of ‘The Little Red Cap’.

This week we have been sharing the work with all the Yr 7 students at Smith’s Wood Academy in North Solihull.

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‘Where Imagination Becomes Experience’ - Celebrating Cecily O’Neill’s pioneering contribution to Drama Education. 25-26 July 2026, Dublin. https://t.co/UHXGwQSfhm

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We’re hiring! 📣

We have five roles available for Senior Officer, Capital Relationships and Monitoring to support major capital investment programmes across the cultural sector.

Apply by 27 Mar
https://t.co/PYlEIGUn7w