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Thanks to funding raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, we are looking to move into Telford town centre and launch ‘Telford Tall Tales’ this summer!
Over the last seven years, we have successfully developed a major children’s outdoors ‘Drama in the Forest’ project and a Youth Theatre in Newport. We now want to serve the wider Telford community and bring more children and their communities together by moving to Telford Town Centre. We want to give children and young people the rare opportunity to co-create theatre with professional artists.
To help us achieve this exciting new arts project and attract national investment, we need as many local people’s input as possible into how best to shape it – please fill in this survey and be in with a chance of winning a £30 shopping gift voucher:
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The ambition of MA is for ‘Telford Tall Tales’ to extend into a long-term community performing arts project that happens cyclically every summer in Telford Town Centre 😊
To see our full press release click this link!
Moonstruck Astronaut Guiding Principles:
We are serious about play.
We seek to be a channel for creativity.
We are a space for finding peace and joy within and with each other.
We find freedom in time spent co-creating with our community.
Witnessing and celebrating each other’s creativity makes us feel alive.
We seek to give people moments and memories that will endure and give them strength for their whole lives.
Who are we?
Moonstruck Astronaut is a not-for-profit community theatre company based in Newport, Shropshire that is in orbit around children co-creating arts projects that uplift and unite!
Our vision is to help foster a joyful, loving world in which everyone's creativity is valued and celebrated. We seek to strengthen our local community's wellbeing by enabling more people to take part in communal creativity in order to increase the bonds of friendship and fun between us all and serve world peace.
Our mission is to bring the local community of Newport and surrounding areas together through theatre projects, first with our children and then extending to all ages. In order to achieve this, we co-create drama projects and performances that encounter life from a child’s open-minded perspective of wonder and delight.
Based on years of experience teaching drama and directing theatre, we are passionate about the extensive benefits to a community’s wellbeing of taking part in communal creativity.
Hannah de Quincey
Artistic Director
What do we do?
We run ‘Drama in the Forest’ outdoor drama workshops for children in the school holidays.
We run the Newport Youth Theatre at Cosy Hall on Thursdays afterschool in term-time.
We believe drama and theatre are powerful, delightful tools for enabling everyone’s confidence, self-expression and holistic wellbeing through the communication, creativity and community they foster. We want to help make these ‘tools’ for developing a well-rounded, contented individual accessible to more people in our local community.
Youth Theatre
A Youth Theatre for 7 - 13 year olds which takes place from March to July every year. (Photo credit: Lizzie Bee photography)
Spring Drama in the Forest
A four-day outdoor drama and movement workshop for 6-12 year olds, themed around animals, that happens in the Easter school holidays. (Photo credit: Jo Edwards photography)
Summer Drama in the Forest
A week-long outdoor drama workshop for 6-12 year olds, incorporating movement and musical instruments, that happens in the summer holidays every August. (Photo credit: Jamie Ricketts for the Shropshire Star)
Opportunities to join us...
Could you make an impact just by being you?
Volunteer with us to extend your skillset and CV and links with your local community.
About Us
Moonstruck Astronaut community theatre company is a lifelong dream of Hannah de Quincey’s. Inspired by her training with London Bubble community theatre company and the Unicorn Theatre for Children in London, she emerged from completing her Masters in Theatre Directing in 2008 with the ambition to co-create a theatre company that specialises in both children’s theatre in conjunction with community theatre. Fast forward over a decade later and the community theatre company that uplifts and unites all she had envisaged is now growing in Shropshire.
The name for the theatre company landed in her mind when she was mesmerised by the moon while walking home when living in London. She still can be found staring up at the moon in the night sky and hopes you remember to look up too!
Participant Feedback
Feedback from our Drama in the Forests:
- Best holiday club we've had.
- He’s been up on the ceiling all week he’s been that excited about coming!
- Absolutely lovely team, my girls are always keen to return every time.
- My son absolutely loved the experience from beginning to end.
- Perfect time, excellent food!
- Varied, specialist teaching in drama, movement, music and arts and crafts.
Feedback from our Youth Theatre:
- Fantastic, entertaining, funny. Well-rehearsed. Very expressive and clear delivery. Great teamwork.
- Fun and well performed. Children performed so well as a team.
- Absolutely fantastic! Performance so unique and well thought ideas.
- They all performed with confidence which can only grow.
- Amazing that everyone had chance to shine – everyone’s confidence has sky rocketed.
- All the actors seemed so confident and gave their energy. Totally amazing.
