Mulberry Theatre Company is the latest initiative in Mulberry’s Specialist School development plan. The company aims to make bold, innovative and inclusive theatre and live performance that supports confidence, creativity, leadership and learning.

Mulberry Theatre Company is a unique pioneering initiative which seeks to inspire and engage the whole school community through theatre in all its many forms and approaches. Its mission is to create opportunities that will (1) serve, support and enrich the whole curriculum, (2) provide exciting work related learning opportunities, (3) create opportunities for extra curricular learning (4) support the school in its areas of arts specialism: Expressive Arts, English and Media and (5) use the arts as a platform to further links with the wider local community.

Following on from 2007's hit’ Mehndi Night’ Mulberry had another successful performance this year with 2008's Stolen Secrets. The play was written by our playwright in residence Finn Kennedy in collaboration with a group of students in a series of after school workshops. For an outline of the plot, please click here

The production was extremely well received playing to full houses every day and had a four star review in The Scotsman newspaper. The students conducted themselves professionally and gained enormously in confidence and skill.

On return to school the team revived the play which has been shown to the entire staff as part of a professional development session. Staff were inspired by watching our students perform in such a professional way. Three hundred students have also had the chance to watch an after school performance and a great many of them have now expressed a desire to be part of the project for 2009's play 'The Unravelling'...