The Edge is a play both urgent and poignant, about loss and love and leaving in order to find a ‘self’ in a world that annihilates the individual in the name of the market and frustrates our need to control our lives.

The Edge is Edward Bond’s 8th play written specially for Big Brum. The production will take place in 2012, marking 50 years of work by Edward Bond, a writer internationally recognised as the UK’s "greatest living playwright". (The Independent) Bond’s theatre engages with the problem of what it is to be human. It is of huge significance for theatre and drama practitioners and audiences and participants in the twenty-first century.

The Edge will form the centrepiece of a Theatre-in-Education programme which presents a remarkable opportunity for young people to engage with a dynamic combination of world-class theatre and the unique creativity of Theatre-in-Education. Highly skilled Actor Teachers will steward students through a meaningful exploration and development of their personal learning and thinking skills, in participatory workshops specifically designed to extend creativity, confidence and powers of communication.

The Edge will be an experience for classes of up to 30 young people, and will be touring from October 2012.

To book, or for more information, please contact:
Claire Procter, Big Brum Theatre-in-Education, Pegasus Infant and Junior School, Turnhouse Road, Castle Vale, Birmingham, B35 6PR.
Tel: 0121 4644607 Mob: 07736 324818 Fax: 0121 4644605 E-mail: claire@bigbrum.plus.com