Anna

Daughters of Fortune: Anna – Exploring Learning Disability and Parenthood

Anna: Daughters of Fortune

Exploring Learning Disability and Parenthood

Anna is an interactive Forum Theatre workshop that explores a series of true-life scenarios that are experienced by learning disabled people when they become a parent:

– Informing family and partner of a pregnancy
– Visiting the midwife for the first time
– Being assessed by a child social worker

Along the way we find out about the barriers, how Anna is feeling, how Tony is coping and what Dad/Mum thinks.

This 2-hour interactive workshop is led by a team of 3 professional learning-disabled performers and a facilitator; together we will explore if we can improve the outcomes for Anna.

Forum Theatre: An interactive workshop format that can be described as ‘a rehearsal for real life’. It provides a safe, supportive environment for individuals to explore complex situations that often have no ‘right’ or ‘one size fits all’ answers.

Advocacy and Safeguarding: Parents, medical experts, geneticists, social workers, council officers and advocates have been involved in the development process for Anna. All the scenes presented are based on real life experiences of the many parents we have interviewed.

“Anna is a brilliant conception of a very important production. It was acted with power and sensitivity and deserves a huge audience.” – Sarah Bennett, Midwife

Anna is available to book. Contact Jess Boyes or call 01274 487390 for more information.

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