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 IN-ROLE PARTICIPATORY TOURS CONDUCTED BY PROFESSIONAL ACTORS

In the heart of Moreton Bay there lies an Isle
Whose ruined walls tell a tale of suffering and woe
  For these walls were once cells and this island a prison

In 1997 professional actors were engaged by A B Sea Cruises for training as accredited tour guides by the MBEEC. These actor-tour guides (ably led by Daley Donnelly who has had considerable experience in the use of theatre in education in the UK) have developed a unique form of historical interpretation. Using participation, role and drama conventions the actor-tour guides bring to life St Helena prison in the year 1904.

Your students become engaged not by a series of facts and figures alone but by history itself! Witness your students participate in the unfolding drama, as they learn through their interaction with 'people from the past'.
Discover the stories of the people who shaped the island and were in turn shaped by it ~ the men, women and children for whom the island was a place of work, incarceration and for many, a final resting place …
 
CLICK HERE for comments by teachers that have undertaken an in-role tour. On some days we can provide a tour conducted in part by a Theatre Troupe member and partly by a guide who can present a tour with greater depth of historical information and/or trained in the natural features of the Island. To find out more about these combined tours CLICK HERE .
St Helena Island Video
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