Glasgow-based theatre company Solar Bear LIMITED has received £106,799 from the Big Lottery Fund to establish Scotland’s first Deaf Youth Theatre.

Having set out to create exciting, innovative theatre with a strong social commitment, Solar Bear has delivered various education and training programmes on a national scale, as well as hosting in-house apprenticeships and producing award-winning, main-stage productions such as Seeing Voices, which received critical acclaim from both Deaf and hearing audiences in 2004.

Solar Bear UNITED - the young people’s wing that works specifically for and with young people, creating workshops and plays that relate to young people’s experiences and interests - is also the only professional theatre company of its type in Scotland.

Solar Bear UNITED is currently getting ready to go into rehearsal for Broken, a new physical theatre piece, which will be performed at Tramway in Glasgow from Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 June at 7.30 pm with a Matinee performance on Friday 8 June at 1pm (£3/£6).

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