When we’re young, most of us want to be in the coolest gang. But when does being in a gang become dangerous or harmful to its members and those outside?

What is gang culture all about?

What’s it like to be left out of a gang?

What feels good about being in one?

We’ll look at the pros and cons of gangs, the individuals that make them up, and what these groups both create and destroy.

We’ll investigate the factors that make gangs such as age, location, ethnicity, religion, family ties. We’ll examine the difference in male and female involvement.

And we’ll do this by creating stories and following through what happens to those both in and out of the gang.

Knowledge is power – we can learn how gangs work, understand them and see how we as individuals can get caught up in a ‘gang mentality’ for example, as football fans, or when we jeer the French when London wins the Olympic bid. 

There are some great musicals featuring gangs, such as West Side Story and Grease. This is our chance to make our own for the twenty-first century!

Bring along your thoughts, your experiences and any research you want to do and we’ll put it into the process.

Now, do you want to join this gang?

THE COMPANY

Cast:

Pastoral Staff & Arrangements:

Head Chaperone: Faye Fadayomi

Chaperones: Natasha Agassiz

Contact phone number: 07910 112 283 (This phone number will be available from 16th July)

Rehearsal venue and dates:

Venue:     Culford School
Address:  Bury St Edmunds
                  Suffolk
                  IP28 6TX           

Dates and times: 23rd - 28th July 2007.  Performance 2pm 28th July 2007.

Other important information:

Travel Information:

By air:

Culford is 45 minutes from Stansted, 2 hours and 30 minutes from Heathrow and 2 hours from Gatwick.
There are express coach services from all three airports.

By train:

The nearest station is Bury St Edmunds. From London Kings Cross travel to Cambridge and take the local
service to Bury St Edmunds. From London Liverpool Street travel to Stowmarket and take the local service to Bury St Edmunds.

By road:

Culford is 1 hour 30 minutes from central London (M11/A11/A14), 40 minutes from Cambridge (A14) and Ipswich (A14) and 1 hour from Norwich (A11/B1106).

From A14 at Bury St Edmunds take A134 (Thetford), at the third roundabout take B1106 (Brandon). Culford is in 2 miles.
Travelling south on the A11 from Norwich, take the B1106 just south of Thetford signposted Bury St Edmunds. Culford is in 6 miles.

Culford School is in the centre of Culford village.

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