This Challenging Choices performance and workshop explores knife crime, including the challenges and issues that lead young people to carry knives and the impact that knife crime can have on individuals, families and communities.
Bobby and his best mate Connor are made up when an older group of lads invite them to hang around at the park, the lads are older, popular and nobody messes with them. Soon, they get involved in things they consider ‘grown up’ including talking to girls and trying drugs and alcohol. But things change when one night one of the older lads pulls out a knife during an argument. Bobby doesn’t want to lose his new friends, and he doesn’t want to be a grass, but he doesn’t know what to do.
This performance, delivered by a single actor, is part of a one hour / 90 minute session which helps young people explore knife crime, how easy it is to be involved in a situation with a weapon and what the legal implications can be for all involved. The young audience watch the performance and, afterwards, take part in discussion-based workshop activities, led by our experienced team of actor educators. The session is a safe space for discussion and reflection, and young people are encouraged to explore the choices made by the character and the different potential futures.
The session can be repeated up to 6 times each day in a school.
