Company Three
Company Three is a theatre company led by the ideas of its 75 members aged 11-19. They recruit members through deep-rooted relationships locally and share their practice globally to impact teenagers everywhere.
Working in Islington, North London, Company Three makes transformative theatre through long-term collaboration between young people and professional theatre-makers. Their plays have been performed at the National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, the Royal Exchange Theatre, the Yard Theatre, and on the BBC.
They share their practice locally, nationally, and internationally. Their blueprints have been used by more than 500 groups in more than 30 countries to co-create work with young people and they have trained hundreds of artists through their training courses.
Their awards include the Peter Brook Empty Space Award for Innovation, the Stage Award for Community Project of the Year, and Outstanding Drama Initiative at the Music and Drama Education Awards.
At Company Three, they believe youth theatre can be a place of community, radical art, and social change. Despite their global reach, they are fiercely local to and are proud to work with the young people of Islington about the issues which affect them most.
Company Three’s Deep Dives project, supported by the Lightbulb Trust, is a programme of intensive projects in seven local schools designed to engage with and support young people at risk of exclusion, disabled young people, and those who might struggle with the transition from primary to secondary school. The project will enable Company Three to work with young people who aren’t currently accessing work, create an access pathway into work, as well as develop Company Three’s organisational capacity to support marginalised young people to both understand and influence the education system.
Company Three
Company Three is a theatre company led by the ideas of its 75 members aged 11-19. They recruit members through deep-rooted relationships locally and share their practice globally to impact teenagers everywhere.
Working in Islington, North London, Company Three makes transformative theatre through long-term collaboration between young people and professional theatre-makers. Their plays have been performed at the National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, the Royal Exchange Theatre, the Yard Theatre, and on the BBC.
They share their practice locally, nationally, and internationally. Their blueprints have been used by more than 500 groups in more than 30 countries to co-create work with young people and they have trained hundreds of artists through their training courses.
Their awards include the Peter Brook Empty Space Award for Innovation, the Stage Award for Community Project of the Year, and Outstanding Drama Initiative at the Music and Drama Education Awards.
At Company Three, they believe youth theatre can be a place of community, radical art, and social change. Despite their global reach, they are fiercely local to and are proud to work with the young people of Islington about the issues which affect them most.
Company Three’s Deep Dives project, supported by the Lightbulb Trust, is a programme of intensive projects in seven local schools designed to engage with and support young people at risk of exclusion, disabled young people, and those who might struggle with the transition from primary to secondary school. The project will enable Company Three to work with young people who aren’t currently accessing work, create an access pathway into work, as well as develop Company Three’s organisational capacity to support marginalised young people to both understand and influence the education system.
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