Action Transport Theatre’s Family Festival brings a variety of art forms to Ellesmere Port annually – storytelling, theatre, film, craft workshops, digital escape rooms and more. 2018’s festival brought a unique street theatre group
The Boom Booms
Gogo – a play made in England and South Africa – Part 2
Following the development of the play and inclusion of design elements in South Africa and then rehearsals at Action Transport Theatre‘s base at Whitby Hall, GOGO played nationally, premiering at the Unicorn Theatre, London
Gogo – a play made in England and South Africa
An already flourishing partnership between Cheshire-based ACTION TRANSPORT THEATRE and Soweto’s VULAVULANI THEATRE COMPANY took an interesting turn in 2006 with the writing of Kevin Dyer’s children’s play GOGO. On previous visits to Soweto, ATT’s
Bothered and Bewildered
Gail Young is a writer living in Guilden Sutton, a Cheshire village, where amateur theatre plays an important role in the community. Gail’s first full-length play, CHESHIRE CATS, is a comedy drama about a group
Night Train
‘NIGHT TRAIN comes from the true stories of young people who run away… from home, foster parents, residential units, the coppers, everything…’ Night Train was written in 2007 by
Another Place
ANOTHER PLACE, Antony Gormley’s sometime controversial installation is a collection of one hundred cast iron figures of his own body facing out to sea. Spread over a two mile stretch of Crosby Beach, it
Fly Away Peter
John Moorhouse, a writer from Ellesmere Port, was commissioned by Action Transport Theatre (which is based in the town) to write a play for young people and it marked his debut as a professional
Tika
TIKA TIKA – Zulu for ‘the one who liked to indulge’ – is the creation of South African professional actor Sizwe Vilakazi. It is a one man show inspired by his own life growing up
The Bomb
The MP Sir Anthony Berry was killed in the Brighton Bombing of 1984 during the Tory Party Conference. A timed bomb had been planted in his room at the Grand Hotel three weeks previously
Jozi Gridlock
The Carlton Centre is a skyscraper and shopping centre in the heart of downtown Johannesburg. With its fifty floors – nearly half of which are below ground level – it is the tallest building
Twelve Miles From Nowhere
This collection of photographs charts the making of a play for young people. It shows the bringing together of four actors and their journey to write a play collaboratively with an award-winning playwright, Kevin
Nokuthula
This shy young girl of eleven or twelve was already practicing her dance alone when I was invited into the gloomy, bare building where every late afternoon excited youngsters of all ages arrived to
Robben Island
Robben Island, just seven miles from Cape Town, has a long and dark history as a place of imprisonment and exclusion but is now a museum, recording the incarceration of the political prisoners of
Crossing The Tracks
I took the first image from a bridge above the track; the girl in her immaculate school uniform – no uniform means no school – and the woman in traditional Sowetan dress crossing the
True and Immortal Sister
TRUE AND IMMORTAL SISTER was one of four plays showcasing the work of young emerging writers produced by ACTION TRANSPORT THEATRE. This is the story of the development of the play but also the
Kliptown
Kliptown is the oldest of twenty-five townships that comprise Soweto (an abbreviation for South West Townships), now part of Johannesburg. It was first laid out in 1893 and from 1903 was home to ‘informal
There’s Only One Of You
THERE’S ONLY ONE OF YOU Making Theatre From The Thoughts of Children The world of the child is one that is inquisitive, excited, and hungry for answers to an infinite number of questions; questions that are