It was very successful and toured the London boroughs. That was the basis of Chain Reaction, which I helped set up after I had finished college. We were commissioned for another piece on drugs education and it went from there.
We now have 12 educational shows in our repertoire that cover everything from healthy eating and emotional wellbeing to sexual health. We work with schools and youth groups, as well as disengaged young people in pupil referral units. Drama works because of the way we deliver it, which is fast-paced and includes popular cultural references and characters young people will recognise. We always open and close with a popular song that they're familiar with, where we have changed the words.
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