Wise Children have today announced The School for Wise Children’s Workrooms, an online creative space to engage with emerging artists, following on from their summer season of courses.

The company’s team, including Emma Rice, Poppy Keeling, Ian Ross and Laura Keefe will be joined by a number of guest tutors throughout the course. 

The Workrooms will include four courses, each focussing on a different area of theatre making including performing, writing, producing and directing, with each course also featuring an online talk that will be open to the wider public. The courses, of which 50% will be available for free, runs from 1 March to 27 April. 

Artistic Director of Wise Children, Emma Rice, said today: “It was with trepidatious hearts that we moved our teaching and theatre practice online last year. My experience had taught me that nothing could match the chemistry of a face-to-face encounter and I felt, at best, we would be surviving by making this switch. I am more thrilled than anyone to have discovered that we not only survived, we thrived! We discovered that the digital platform was intuitive, creatively intimate and personal. With renewed enthusiasm and confidence, we are delighted to be launching the Wise Children Workrooms and look forward to welcoming a new class to our digital school. Here’s to hope, surprise, bravery and smart dreaming!”

Each course will have at least 9 hours of contact time plus time to develop independent projects, in a mixture of group and individual sessions. 

To apply for a course, please click here.