Fired Up Theatre

White Girls Can't Dance, Black Guys Can't Swim

A Performance piece focussing on the awareness of racism and the dignity of being different

A unique presentation of historical and contemporary incidents surrounding the issues of racism and anti-racism.

Students from Pool Hayes and Bluecoats schools, with Darlaston Youth Centre, combine to perform poems, dance music and drama together with projected imagery of this acute and thought provoking subject matter.

Performances take place at 

Walsall Town Hall on Friday March 20th

Times of performances: 12:30 and 2:30 pm. Admission is FREE but you must book your place by calling (07985) 030585 or e-mail Fireduptheatre@aol.com

Going All The Way

Fired Up Theatre are to expand on their performance piece, 'Going All The Way' which made its debut at Walton Hall School, Eccleshall recently. Commissioned by the school to devise workshops and a performance on issues of teenage promiscuity, respect for personal space and general points from the school's SEL programme, the piece proved to be a success with students and teaching staff alike. If you would like more information on this project and how your school can become part of the programme, then contact us via e-mail Fireduptheatre@aol.com

Ryan's Slaughter

The successful work, Ryan's Slaughter, which developed a community partnership between Fired Up and ABCD Neighborhood wardens in Wolverhampton has been recommissioned. The play looks at relationships between young people and their 'elders' with dramatic and disturbing revelations. Designed to strengthen intergenerational cohesion, the performance will involve Year 6 St. Lukes and Graisley Primary Schools, to take place at:

Newhampton Arts Centre - Friday, 3rd July

More dertails regarding tickets and times of performance can be obtained soon by visiting the Newhampton Arts Centre website.

Seeing Red & Cirque de Folie

Seeing Red and Cirque de Folie are two projects which bring together Fired Up Theatre and students from President Kennedy School, Coventry. PKTV is the school's own state of the art television studio and under the leadership of Alex Randell-Bissell. Fired Up have been brought in to help the PK team devise their own manic fly-on-the-wall series which gives pupils the opportunity to spend a little time as somewhat eccentric characters living on the planet Mars!! Don't ask just keep watching this space!!

Cirque de Folie is a unique and vibrant musical looking at another collection of weird and wonderful characters, this time associated with those lifestyles of people living and working under the Big Top. Auditions are near completion, and choreographer Holly Evans is busily devising an eclectic set of routines for the members of the cast.

New-Town

New-Town is another piece looking at the issues surrounding diversity. Working alongside Fair Oak and Hagley Park Schools in Rugeley, the work is using themes put forward by the performing arts students from both schools, interwoven with the template script from White Girls Can't Dance, Black Guys Can't Swim.

The performance is to take place at Rugeley Rose Theatre at the end of March.

More details to follow

Burning Underneath!!!!!

Bugsy Malone.......Cinderella......New Youth Theatre......The Parable of The Good Samaritan in Credit Crunch UK.......Showing of the film, SLASHED......Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.............................................................................

Award Winners:

Fired Up Theatre's Summer School of 2006 , alongside Staffordhire Education Authority has assisted in Sir Graham Balfour School to win the prestigious Princess Diana Award for a project designed to make aware the importance in initatives of an  anti-bullying campaign.