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Means Of Production is a UK-based Participatory Arts collective working with schools, youth and community groups, arts organisations, theatres, festivals and creative individuals of all ages.

£48k funding success for

Tales From the Keep 2

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Young actors at Totnes Young People’s Theatre are celebrating after winning thousands of pounds worth of funding for a major arts project in the town.

The theatre group has been awarded £48,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to stage the second Tales From The Keep festival of performing arts, which will feature a series of community performances in the grounds of Berry Pomeroy Castle on July 12 and 13, 2008.

TYPT are also running drama and history workshops in local schools, with help from Means of Production.

Anyone interested in taking part in the Tales From The Keep Festival 2008 should contact Jon Croose on 01803 872 847 or by e-mail at jon@means-of-production.co.uk.

dartington college

MOP is currently collaborating with the following partners:

Maniac Films

Click here for footage of the Think Tank Awards Ceremony

The Common Players

MOP is currently working alongside the Common Players, Exmoor National Park Authority and the Exmoor Society to produce a theatre piece tracing the history of this area of outstanding natural beauty. For more details click here.

Value Theatre

MOP recently worked alongside Jo Tasker at Value Theatre on two shows touring to schools, Connexions training groups, E2E centres, Aim Higher projects and Young Offender Institutions.

Is HE for Me? examined our life choices and looked at training opportunities for young people. Am I Bothered? is a comic take on work experience aimed at y10 students. For more info, click here.

Isca College

MOP has also been working with students at ISCA College of Media Arts in Exeter developing a script for an animated zombie flick with funding from First Light.

Creative Courses, Plays for Young People, Youth Theatre, Site Specifics...

Welcome to the MOP website. We hope you enjoy looking around. MOP offers an exciting range of participatory arts projects, so please do not hesitate to get in touch, whatever your interest. If you don't find exactly what you are looking for, let us know - we'll be happy to design a course or project especially for you.

MOP Creative Arts Courses:

flagpic MOP offer a range of Creative Arts Courses which give you a chance to step up alongside professional artists, theatre makers, writers and performers.

MOP theatre workshops include sessions on acting, physical theatre, mask performance, writing for theatre, Shakespeare and more. We cater to all levels, from beginners to experienced performers.

MOP also offers workshops on scriptwriting and writing for film.

We work with school and community groups across the UK and we also run sessions in lantern making and processional performance.

MOP practitioners are also happy to design specific courses to suit your needs and budgets.

New! Writing for Film

MOP's new range of plays helps young people explore a range of dramatic techniques and engage with important human issues.

Written for small group or ensemble work, MOP playscripts come with supporting resources and workshop material.

LIFE JIM, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT! is an ideal resource for School Drama, PHSE and Youth Theatre.

MOP and Devon Youth Theatre:

DYT The 2007 summer production by Devon Youth Theatre (DYT) was Unhappy The Land That Needs Heroes, directed by Tiffany Strawson and written by MOP artistic director Jon Croose.

DYT is open to all young people living in Devon and is managed by DAISI, the Devon Arts In Schools Initiative.

The show, which featured live film, video, live action, dance and script, was developed over several weekends of devising by a team of the county’s most talented young actors.

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens:

Jack Latest news on the cult hit, sci-fi musical.

Jon Croose - Artistic Director:

Jon has a 12-year professional background in theatre as a writer, actor, musician, workshop leader, teacher of Drama, director and stage manager.

He has worked with a range of companies including English Touring Theatre, Oddbodies, Tiebreak, Blind Ditch, Wimbledon Theatre, Glastonbury Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has toured the USA with the Hampstead Players, one of America’s largest touring theatres for children.

Click here to read what people have said about MOP projects.

MOP and Common Players

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Following the success of the play Tracks and Traces - A Story of Exmoor, written by MOP director Jon Croose, Jon has been appointed a Creative Associate with the Common Players. The new team of Creative Associates includes arts professionals from a range of backgrounds, with a brief to help produce participatory arts projects and new plays for rural communities across the South West UK.

Young Zimbabwean artists reach out

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Youth Arts organisations across the UK have a unique opportunity to collaborate with young people from Africa as part of a new project launched by MOP and Tambanuka, a Zimbabwean theatre for development organisation run by artist Takudzwa Mukiwa.

Tambanuka works primarily with young people in Harare through theatre, dance and Zimbabwean hip-hop. Now, the organisation is seeking opportunities for international exchange work with young people from the UK. If you are interested in this project, you can find more details about Tambanuka and the Kunzwanana project via the link below or by e-mailing Jon at jon@means-of-production.co.uk.

Tambanuka

Kunzwanana Project