Theatre Centre

Theatre Centre is a specialist performing arts school for 4 - 16yr olds.

We have centres in LEWES, HEATHFIELD & BRIGHTON

Our classes are divided into two main age groups:

First Stage 4-7's
Centre Stage 8-16's
The Centre Stage group at LEWES & HEATHFIELD is also split into Juniors & Seniors.

WE ARE ENROLLING NOW FOR SUMMER TERM 2008 - YOU CAN TRY A CLASS FIRST

For more details just call Richard & Allie on 01273 476226 or email us at office@intrepidinspires.co.uk

Past Productions and Intrepid Steps

We have staged professionally led productions with Centre Stage children as the perfomers in original adaptations of Cinderella, The Selfish Giant, Where The Wild Things Are, The Jungle Book, and Hansel & Gretel to name a few. Intrepid’s Alison West, who writes the adaptation also directs alongside a creative team who are specialists in choreography, acting and song.

First Stage children also perform, most recently with an adaption of the David McKee book, Isabel's Noisy Tummy.

Intrepid Steps are our new guiding principles and attainment guidelines for children attending our classes. Through Intrepid Steps we can build confidence, develop coordination & communications skills and inspire creativity.

Our teachers

Alison West (Founder, Creative Director, First & Centre Stage Teacher)
Alison graduated with a First Class Honours in Drama and followed that up with a postgraduate Diploma in Theatre Direction at Birmingham School of Speech & Drama. Alison has extensive experience of acting, directing and teaching with a wide variety of companies both in the UK and abroad. Alison has worked with a range of theatre, film, radio and TV writers, actors, and creative practitioners through her role as Creative Director of Intrepid and as a freelance trainer & director. Highlights include leading original stage productions of The Foundling and Clamshell Boy, which premiered at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and Brighton Dome respectively. Alison is a skilful writer in her own right and has written original scripts based on adaptations of children’s classics such as Fantastic Mr Fox, The Jungle Book, Where the Wild Things Are, and The Selfish Giant.

Ed Burnside (First & Centre Stage Teacher)
Ed trained as an actor and singer at Italia Conti and since graduating with First Class Honours has toured extensively across the UK and Ireland as an actor. He has also appeared in the West End, playing Stephano in The Tempest at the New Players and at the National Theatre in Power. In 2006 he played the lonely robot Dymotron in The Night Before Christmas at Brighton Dome, which was written for young audiences and returned to Brighton as part of a national tour this Christmas 2007.
Ed divides his time performing, teaching for Intrepid and Italia Conti and running his own theatre company, which specialises in adapting classic novels and tours throughout the southwest.

Sharon Aviva-Jones (First & Centre Stage Teacher)
Sharon trained at the University of Exeter and spent over ten years with the groundbreaking education department at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry leading workshops, facilitating arts projects and performing in their resident and touring productions. Since locating to the South East, Sharon has split her facilitation, performing and teaching work between Sussex and London with work for Unicorn Theatre, Glyndebourne Youth Opera Groups, Trinity Arts, Tunbridge Wells, Creative Partnerships and numerous projects and classes for Intrepid. She first worked for Intrepid in 2001, leading workshops with Chol’s Story, a much acclaimed participatory workshop that toured to schools throughout the south east funded by Arts Council South East. She also led the teaching development work alongside Alison on developing The Foundling prior to its stage production.