Welcome to Engross!
Special Plays for Special Schools
Engross Theatre Group is a professional theatre group with charitable status. We specialise in taking bespoke curriculum-based plays into Special Schools to support the education of pupils with learning disabilities. These pupils may have short attention spans and can find it difficult to learn and then retain educational information, but through the medium of our specially-tailored live performances, they become totally engrossed.
Our plays are specifically developed to be highly entertaining, incorporating plenty humour, and pupil interaction, to convey the educational information contained therein - the pupils are learning without even realising it! Taking theatre to the children means they are relaxed and in their own environment, making it the perfect atmosphere for them to enjoy the performance and absorb the educational values of the play. Our projects are financed through funding organisations, allowing us to perform our plays at no cost to the schools
We have found that working in collaboration with external organisations is mutually beneficial, such as Archaeology Scotland, who deliver excellent post-play workshops for our "Roman", "Viking" and "World War 2" plays, and who are keen to extend this collaboration further, as they have discovered the pupils are "significantly more engaged in our work-shops, after watching your plays."(Ruth Bordoli, Archaeology Scotland).
We are client-led and through consultation with the schools we have produced plays about People In The Past and Personal And Social Education. Future productions will be developed using the same consultation and research methods.
We aim to adhere to the principles of the Curriculum for Excellence in the presentation and content of our plays – please click here to see a Statement by Head-Teacher at Pilrig Park School.
"Engross Theatre put the message across in a way the pupils can understand and REMEMBER" - Pinewood Special School