Find Your Community,
Find Yourself
Discover the Magic that Occurs Outside Your Comfort Zone
TheatreQuests are a collaborative programme of theatre, nature exploration, and art & wellbeing workshops that culminate in final performances.
They are a perfect fun learning experience for children, incorporating creativity and environmental awareness.
Children’s TheatreQuests last for the duration of a school year, from October to May.
Upcoming TheatreQuest Events
Benefits for Children
The young participants will be introduced to simple practices that will help them to remain embodied, present and responsive to the world’s invitations.
In a time where anxiety and isolation are increasing, especially in the young generations, this course will offer an alternative to the way we respond to what is happening around and inside us.
Somatic movement, breathing techniques and group improvisation will help to develop engagement and response-abilities. We will encourage the discovery of each child’s unique creative mode and support their journey of self-discovery through art.
Scientific studies have shown that social behaviour and mental health are affected by the climate crisis – children feel this even more than adults. By encouraging self-expression, stimulating creative thinking and facilitating physical engagement, we help our young participants to gain agency and react in a new creative way to the impulses offered by the environment.
What to Expect
Guided by an expert facilitator, each child will receive individual attention. This is why the course is limited to 12 participants. According to the child’s preferences and inclination, each participant will be encouraged to find their own way of expression. Special guests such as musicians, dancers and storytellers will offer sessions to support the realisation of our final show.
Activities include:
- Games and exercises to increase listening, focusing and body expression
- Improvisation skills
- Staying in character skills
- Speaking in groups
Book your child’s place!
For booking and bursary enquiries, please contact us
Between October 2024 and May 2025, the course will run on Tuesdays 4pm-5.30pm at Transition Town Forres, Bogton Road, Forres, Scotland IV36 3TW (excluding public Scottish holidays, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve).
Block booking for the whole course is £300 (reduced price), £350 (standard price) or £400 (generous price, helping others to join).
It is possible to pay for 8-session blocks: £80 (reduced price), £100 (standard price) or £120 (generous price, helping others to join).
Funded bursary places are available to those who otherwise may not be able to join the course, kindly sponsored by Newbold Legacy Trust.
You can also increase the number of bursary places we can offer in future by paying the upper-limit fee of £400 for the whole course if you are able.
Ecological Theatre Principles
Previous participants wrote a list of values that are developed with EcoTheatre, which your child will come across on TheatreQuest:
Meet Your Mentor
Laura Pasetti
Artistic Director
Laura Pasetti is the course instructor. She is a theatre director, playwright and facilitator of learning, with 35 years of experience working with theatre professionals and non-professionals alike. Laura considers herself “an artist on a quest”. She has never stopped searching and training to enrich her knowledge and understanding of humanity. Since 2016 she has been combining theatre and ecology. In 2018 she completed a one-year training in nature-based practices at Ecodharma (Catalunya). In 2023 she founded Theatre of the 7 Directions and obtained a Master’s Degree in Engaged Ecology (Schumacher College). She lives in Scotland, in the Findhorn Ecovillage.
She has been teaching children and teenagers for much of her career, passionate about providing the next generation with invaluable tools for happy, healthy, creative lives. This includes a decade of providing annual Summer Camps for young people in Scotland and Italy.
Theatre Quests Abroad
Contact us to enquire about having our TheatreQuest programmes delivered to your local community, ecovillage, school or organisation.
We can deliver hybrid programmes, part online and part-in person, or fully in-person in most countries. We can also deliver online only eco activities (workshops) or conferences on specific topics.
We wish to animate the world with more inspiring animateurs, artists who will lead society into a more ecologically healthy vision of life.
Our TheatreQuests, immersive group experiences with final performances, are a way for your group to process, express and bond.