Welcome to the official website of Vicky Ireland
Vicky Ireland is one of the foremost theatre practitioners in the UK. She is a freelance Children's Theatre Director and Writer.
In 2002 she was awarded the MBE medal in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list for services to children’s drama, the first of its kind.
Vicky positions include:
Co-Director with Kumiko Mendl of A Thousand Cranes Theatre - www.athousandcranes.org.uk
Vice Chair of Action for Children's Arts - www.childrensarts.org.uk
Board Member of TYA - ASSITEJ UK - www.tya-uk.org
Patron of Polka Theatre - www.polkatheatre.com
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Hot News!
Vicky has won a place as one of five international playwright observers to be invited to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 11th New Visions/New Voices festival to be held in Washington DC in May 2010. This is a biennial workshop and festival dedicated to developing new plays and musicals written for young people and their families. Download the full press release here.
SE: "I have seen dramatisations of several Wilson books – such as The Lottie Project and Secrets at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. Isn't it very difficult to hand over your "baby"?
JW: "No: Vicky Ireland, my usual adapter, is a novelist's dream," she says. "She won't change storylines because it upsets children in the audience who know the books but, skilled actor and director that she is, she finds wonderful ways of presenting it on stage."
Susan Elkin interviews Jacqueline Wilson for The Independent on Sunday - August 2009
NEWS - 2009
Recent and Forthcoming Work:
A Thousand Cranes’ new show with artsdepot, The Paper Washi Wish for 3 years+ will be seen as “work-in-progress” in at ACE DECIBEL festival on Friday 18th September at 1pm at the Royal Exchange Studio Theatre, Manchester. It will be available for touring from Spring 2010.
Currently writing Mickey and Lionel for REPLAY TIE Company, Belfast which will tour schools in 2010.
East 15 Drama School, Autumn 2009, Vicky will devise and produce with students The Princess And The Pea which will tour to Junior schools.
The Hare And The Tortoise will be The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch 2010 Spring TIE Junior tour.
We are proud to announce that A Thousand Cranes has been made an Artistic Associate of artsdepot!
Earlier in 2009:
Vicky's dramatization of The Ugly Duckling toured this spring by The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, to local Junior Schools.
Two dramatizations of Jacqueline Wilson books, The Suitcase Kid and Secrets, have been published by Nick Hern Books.
In March Vicky visited VISIONI DI FUTURO, VISIONI DI TEATRO Testoni Ragazzi Theatre - Bologna – Italy. A festival of theatre work for 0-3 yrs.
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