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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Latest News From ACA
Catch The Wave! An Action for Children’s Arts INSPIRATION DAY. The hows and whys of producing opera for young audiences. A one-day conference for children’s arts professionals to explore ways in which children’s theatre and opera can inform and inspire each other.
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath - 19 April 2010.
Download the information sheet here or visit www.childrensarts.org.uk.
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 - 2010
Recent and Forthcoming Work:
We are proud to announce that A Thousand Cranes has been made an Artistic Associate of artsdepot. Our new show with artsdepot, The Paper Washi Wish for 3 years+ was seen as “work-in-progress” in at the ACE DECIBEL festival at the Royal Exchange Studio Theatre, Manchester. We are now awaiting news of an ACE funding application, and have a penciled tour for the Autumn.
Feb - The Hare and The Tortoise is the Spring TIE Junior tour for The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch.
April 11-18 - 40th Festival of Theatre for Children and Young People, Denmark. Vicky will be a guest at this festival - recognized as a major event in its field, in the Municipality of Esbjerg. She will represent TYA ASSITEJ UK as part of the 2011 Congress Advisory Board, and will meet with the 2011 Congress Executive Board, friends from the Danish theatres and other international guests from ASSITEJ-centres and theatres around the world.
ASSITEJ World Congress 2011
Farvergade 10, 4. | DK- 1463 Copenhagen | Denmark
Phone: +45 35 34 45 09 | Cell: +45 50 88 05 88
E-mail: pm@assitej2011.info | Web: www.assitej2011.info
May - Mickey and Lionel for 4-7yrs written for REPLAY TIE Company, Belfast, will be included in the Young at Arts Belfast Festival and then tour to schools in Northern Ireland.
May - 11th New Visions/New Voices festival, Washington DC. 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.
May - Writing Plays for Children, Deia Mallorca. 30th May-5th June, Vicky with colleague Roman Stefanski will be running a workshop as part of Deia Retreats. It will be on writing plays for children, ways and means including an introduction to simple puppetry. www.deiaretreats.com
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