Alongside our performance work the members of Tortoise In A Nutshell have a strong interest and commitment to Theatre in Education. We strongly believe in the ability of drama to support active learning and as individual practitioners we have a large amount of experience facilitating drama sessions; primarily with young people. 
Our work targets developing creativity, play and language skills through both performance and workshop exercises. Based around the primary working interests of the company, we have a number of workshops available for booking and can tailor make them to fit the specific needs of your group. Furthermore all of the workshops also follow the principles of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.
Our principle workshops are divided into two skill levels:
Introductory:
Retelling Tales:
A short workshop based around the ideas of play and exploration for ages 5 to 7, focussing on developing basic storytelling and the imagination. Using our favourite fairytales, the session will explore simple storytelling techniques to create scenes. 
Shadow Worlds:
 
This shadow puppet workshop allows children to create their own puppets and stories, giving them everything they need to make their own shadow worlds at home, meaning the fun can continue long after the workshop is finished. For ages 5+.
Puppet tales:           
An introductory workshop into basic puppet creating based around characters from fairytales. This workshop provides the opportunity to make a character and use it within short scenes, exploring the participant’s creativity and developing devising skills; a two and a half hour workshop for ages 6 to 12.
Intermediate:
Story-building:
A developmental workshop for ages 8 – 12 designed to progress to using different stimuli as a form of devising, including; music, photographs, pictures and props. A two and a half hour workshop creating our own stories for the stage.
Lights and Shadows:
 
An exploratory long workshop for young adults. Using lights, shadows and their own bodies to explore and create exciting pieces of visual theatre in one day. This is a move away from the standard drama workshop, introducing young participants to contemporary theatre practice.
Please email info@tortoiseinanutshell.com for more information and standby for updates on a full term of workshops coming soon to Edinburgh.