PERFORMANCE COMPANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE COMES TO EASTON

By SARSKI ANDERSON, Tuesday Oct 19, 2021

Ahead of their regular sessions beginning at the Easton Community Centre this November, I caught up with Alice Wrench from Threefold Theatre, to find out how more about the catalyst for the three-stranded company, and what it will offer the young people of BS5.

“I’m on a mission,” she explains. “It’s to do with play.

“All children play. They are in flow, in their bodies and imaginations. But at what point do we stop? I think a lot about that moment when kids decide that imaginative play is not cool anymore. I remember the distinct moment it happened for me on my first day of secondary school. I think drama saved me a bit as it gave me a place to play which I still desperately needed at that time.”

For Wrench, that realisation was the foundation for a maxim that not only gave rise to Threefold, but permeates the entire organisation ethos:

Never. Stop. Playing.