Three children stand close together in a rehearsal room, reaching their hands forward in an expressive drama exercise while an adult gestures back.

Marlowe Theatre2022

Marlowe Minis

The Production

Marlowe Minis was a Marlowe Theatre youth-group creative drama programme for young participants, using games, movement and creative play to explore stories, characters and ideas. This January 2022 session/showing forms part of The Marlowe’s work with its youngest Youth Company participants.

25 photographs in the curated edit

Commissioned by: Marlowe Theatre
Photography: Steve Gregson

A group of children spread across a black-floored studio, raising their arms during a movement exercise under bright rehearsal-room lighting.

Two children lie and crouch on the studio floor, concentrating on papers and a pen during a rehearsal activity.

Three children improvise in a studio, with one standing and holding a pink soft toy while another crouches on the floor and a third watches.

Children and an adult facilitator stand in a circle on the studio floor, all using pointed hand gestures in a group drama exercise.

Two children pose playfully near a white wall, one making horns with their fingers while the other stretches their arms out behind.

Children and two adults move around the rehearsal room with arms outstretched, forming a wide circle across the black floor.

Two children stand side by side reading from printed scripts, focused on the pages during a rehearsal.

Children sit and lie on the studio floor in a small improvisation scene, with one child gently holding another’s face as others watch.

A child in a daisy-patterned sweater makes an animated claw-like gesture during a drama exercise, with other children moving behind.

Children and an adult sit in a circle on a black rehearsal-room floor, reading script pages spread between them.

Children form a playful physical tableau in a rehearsal room, with some lying on the floor and others balancing with arms outstretched.

Two children sit facing each other on the studio floor, smiling as script pages lie scattered in front of them.

Three children move in a line toward the camera in a rehearsal studio, smiling and carrying a pink doll.

A child in a red-and-navy striped top sits alone on the black studio floor, focused on reading a script page.

A masked adult facilitator raises both fists while children stand around the rehearsal room watching and responding.

A child in a bright pink hoodie stands with arms outstretched, while another child behind raises fuzzy sleeves overhead in a playful pose.

A wide rehearsal-room view shows children working in small groups with scripts, sitting, lying and standing across the black floor.

Three children sit low on the studio floor, with one holding up a pink doll during a quiet rehearsal moment.

A smiling child crouches forward on hands and feet during a drama exercise, facing another child nearby.

Three children rehearse playfully in a studio, making exaggerated gestures and faces on a black floor against plain walls.

A masked adult facilitator sits on the studio floor with a small circle of children, gesturing with her hands as they listen.

A child in a colourful star-print hoodie reads from a script while other children and a masked adult work in the background.

Three children kneel together on the rehearsal room floor, with one speaking animatedly as the others watch and listen.

Children line up across the studio floor in playful poses, waving and making horn gestures during a movement exercise.

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