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Taught by an Idiot

Our participation, community engagement and education programme is called ‘Taught by an Idiot’. This title is a deliberate attempt to be playfully subversive, to challenge the idea of who gets to do the teaching and whom we think the teacher should be. We have no interest, however, in teaching anyone anything; rather, we look to share, explore and provoke. All we ask from our participants is a sense of openness, curiosity, and the desire to play.

Our Taught projects are as integral to the company as our productions. They all embody our work, our ideas and our ethos.

We engage with all areas of learning from primary to university and beyond. We regularly collaborate with educational institutions to design creative and practical workshops and make a meaningful contribution to students' learning. In our professional development workshops and projects, we are particularly interested in working with early career theatre makers, who are underrepresented in the industry.

All our work is anarchic and spontaneous, and we strive to make it accessible to everyone and anyone.

Published: 26th June, 2019

Updated: 5th April, 2022

Author: Jennifer Holton

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