Lead Artist, Director, Editor

Not Fit For Purpose

The Ayr Gaeity

Working with the Ayr Gaiety’s Youth Theatre, this project started online by joining Company 3's Coronavirus Time Capsule.

​When we got to Week Four - School we had a strong response. We decided instead of writing a letter to school we would write a letter to the government about school, a hopeful letter about the change that could happen post lockdown.

​That letter turned into 'Not Fit For Purpose', a piece exploring the school system and what it could be. This work was created by the youth theatre participants and facilitated by Lydia Davidson (now Green) with the support of Ricky Williamson.

Synopsis

It’s the year 2020 and the world looks very different to the one we lived in when our education system was set up in 1918. It is no longer fit for purpose. You’ve had your time to fix it. In fact, you’ve had over 100 years. We no longer want to conform to your binary ideas of learning. So we’re taking matters into our own hands. We want an education that is about actual learning, not ticking boxes and passing tests.