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Pintsize Theatre - I Want, I Want!

Project: I Want, I Want!

Region: Nottinghamshire

Amount approved: £25,200

This Awareness Projects grant was the first of two awards made to Pintsize Theatre in 2010 as part of Drinkaware’s drive to enhance its support of educational theatre regarding alcohol. This particular piece targets young people in both primary and senior schools (years 6 to 8) along with their parents, and addresses the negative effects alcohol misuse can have on individuals and whole families. As well as demonstrating what can happen to people under the influence, the narrative also depicts teenagers being affected by their relatives’ alcohol misuse and peer pressure from friends, while showing parents both rejecting any outside assistance with communicating alcohol facts to their children but then neglecting to tackle it themselves.

At a more specific level, the piece includes a wealth of positive and negative alcohol situations including young men boasting about drinking at work although they operate dangerous machinery, an alcoholic mother cutting down due to pressure from her daughter, a girl continuing to drink while pregnant after conceiving under the influence and a main character who gives into peer pressure having been a non-drinker during her late teens.

The story ends with many unresolved issues which can then be discussed by the young audience in a facilitated workshop. This session also enables the audience to question the actors in character an suggest alternative courses key scenes could have taken which are then played out by the cast. As with all TiE recently funded by Drinkaware, it is these instructive workshops which pack the real educational punch.

A tour of 50 performances in the first quarter of 2011 has been made possible through this grant, complete with accompanying materials to aid further work on alcohol in class. Parents will also be invited to see performances wherever possible or may even benefit from a show put on for them exclusively.

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