Oily Cart

Acclaimed theatre company Oily Cart has for 30 years been making colourful musical interactive theatre for young children and for children and young adults with learning disabilities or on the spectrum of autism. This fascinating book presents a rich and illuminating picture of its three decades of skilled theatre making.

It is an essential source book for: theatre practitioners who make, or are seeking to make, theatre for young children or for children and young adults with learning disabilities; teachers and students who are engaged in Special Educational Needs, early years and nursery work, or drama and theatre; and anyone interested in drama therapy or music therapy.

“There are good theatre companies, and there are great theatre companies. There are great theatre companies and there is Oily Cart.”

-- Lyn Gardiner Guardian drama critic The great sense of fun, the freewheeling anarchy and mayhem... Oily Cart are the free spirits of the children's theatre movement. -- Tony Graham former director of the Unicorn Theatre I would recommend Oily Cart: All Sorts of Theatre for All Sorts of Kids to practitioners seeking insight into one of the United Kingdom's most prolific and exciting children's theatre companies, and to scholars interested in contemporary practice within TYA. It deserves a place on reading lists at drama schools, conservatoires, and theatre studies departments alike. -- Ben Fletcher-Watson Youth Theatre Journal

Mark Brown is a theatre critic and arts journalist.

Acclaimed theatre company Oily Cart has for 30 years been making colourful musical interactive theatre for young children and for children and young adults with learning disabilities or on the spectrum of autism. This fascinating book presents a rich and illuminating picture of its three decades of skilled theatre making. It is an essential source book for - theatre practitioners who make, or are seeking to make, theatre for young children or for children and young adults with learning disabilities - teachers and students who are engaged in Special Educational Needs, early years and nursery work, or drama and theatre - anyone interested in drama therapy or music therapy

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