Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Dear Gabby ...



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The first video postcard from a Ghanaian practitioner is from Theatre for a Change's Nii Kwartelai Quartey to Gabby Vautier, the Audience Development Co-ordinator at the Young Vic Theatre in London.

Nii has been involved with Theatre for a Change since it was founded by Patrick Young in 2003. He has lived in James Town, where TfaC has a Community Theatre Centre, for his whole life and is currently the Training Officer at TfaC's new Community Theatre project in Amasaman, in the north west of Greater Accra.

Nii shot his video on Sunday before, during and after a training workshop for 20 young people from Amasaman and surrounding areas. Ten of these young people will start their own workshop groups ('focus groups') in January, while the other ten will remain together to form their own Interactive Theatre performance group.

Read more about the Amasaman Project.

As well as his work as a Practitioner and Training Officer, Nii has also performed in numerous Interactive Theatre performances and has a written a number of his own plays.

Depending on your Internet connection, you may need to wait a short while for this video to load. If you would like to view it on Youtube, please click here.

Please check back soon for Gabby's response to this first Interact video postcard.

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