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About our cause

Theatre Ark is a theatre company made up of 14-20 year olds who rehearse at A E Harris in the Jewellery Quarter. We aim to provide young people in Birmingham with employment and enterprise skills in a creative setting and produce live performances of an excellent standard. The members are responsible for the productions and they are also training to take on full responsibility for the running of the whole organisation – the finance, planning, policy-making, fund-raising, programming, marketing – everything! We feel this is vital in this economic climate as it addresses the cycle of unemployment faced by young people today.
Our most recent project was The Name of Action, a film project using Shakespeare texts to explore the lives of young people in Birmingham, produced in the aftermath of the Birmingham riots. Following on from this, we are now working on a full-scale immersive production of The Tempest by Shakespeare in April at the A E Harris, a disused factory warehouse in Birmingham now being used as an arts venue.