"The philosophy at On With The Show
Productions is to encourage and enable children to
produce and perform.
Heather and I decided to form
OWTS as a not for profit group as we felt we could take a
completely different (and much healthier)
approach.
The major difference between On With
The Show and the
other local groups, is that our aim is to build confidence
through building skills: "Talent" or experience are
definitely not a prerequisite. Children are involved in all
aspects of putting on a show- teaching them the importance
of team building, drawing on your imagination, using your
initiative and daring to have a go. We know of no other
group like this!
This difference manifests itself in the
fact that we seek to give children far more opportunity to
produce and perform for an audience: We are continually
working on `showcases' - On with the Showcases! - which are
shown to parents very frequently (timescale dependent on
nature of showcase) which incorporate all the stagecraft
skills- scenery, technical, costumes, make-up,
script, performing and front of house."