Lived Experience
Lived Experience. Jan 26 – April 26. Women at Risk of Re-offending Delivered to woman at risk of re-offending 10 Writing workshops partnering with The Probation Service and St Giles, a UK charity who works with offenders and ex offenders giving them development opportunities. The women attended the writing workshops and wrote their stories, mainly auto-biographical, about their youth and their subsequent offences, and their lives and hopes now. Their writing was then staged at Conservatoire East performed by professional actors to a full audience of general public, local councillors and friends and family followed by a lively Q and A.
Wayland intensive Acting Course
Project name: Acting Course
Period: Nov 2025
What: 5-day intensive course led by James Corley at Cat B prison, HMP Wayland. The group rehearsed and performed scenes from Dealer’s Choice by Patrick Marber.
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Workshops Hollesley Bay Prison
Project name: Intro to Playwriting
Period: Oct-Nov 2025
What: A 10-session Intro to Playwriting course at HMP Hollesley Bay, a D Category prison in Ipswich.
Looking Backwards -Moving Forwards
Ten weeks writing course with young students dealing with abuse and trauma in their childhoods. Their writing was staged by professional actors to an invited audience at Conservatoire EAST. After the staging, there was a Q and A.
Devised Play “The Land of Good Will”
The Hal Company worked with Good Vibes and their group of special needs participants and volunteers to create “The Land of Good Will” a devised play with music which was staged at Conservatoire EAST to the public, friends and family and local dignitaries including the Mayor who met all the participants after the show. Over a period of 5 months The Hal Company worked with a group of people with challenging needs, some non-verbal, some paraplegic, and each participant created their own characters from which we devised the fairy tale “The Land of Good Will”. We have been asked to work with them again in 2027.
Survivors Voices
Writing workshops in a women’s refuge and the staging of their writing at Dance east Ipswich