Together with Freedom Studios, Artistic Director, Madani Younis, Susana will be exploring traditional stories and performance techniques with the students to devise a lively 30-minute production. The company is delighted that thanks to head teacher, Fran Warden of Springwood Community Primary School, performances will take place at the school and at Margaret McMillan Primary School in Bradford, the week before Christmas.

Susana Alcantud says ‘ I am so happy to have this chance to make a show with Freedom Studios.  It’s an exciting challenge to work with them and to collaborate with a great artist like Madani Younis, whose work I love.  I feel I can offer a new approach to the young actors and using our full imagination we can make a beautiful show for children so that they can dream.’

Freedom Studios Theatre School, which currently receives funding from Awards for All, The Yorkshire & Clydesdale Bank Foundation and the Ernest Cook Trust, offers a programme of arts and theatre based professional development training for aspiring Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic artists, enabling the stories of this generation of young people to be told. The school takes place in a semester-style programme at evenings and weekends throughout the year, delivering practical skills, confidence building, hands-on industry advice and the experience of working with a professional theatre company. 

Hema Johar has been a member of the Theatre School for a year and comments ‘Since I've joined I've loved every second of it - such a fresh approach to work. The current project for a children's play led by Susana Alcantud has been so much fun, I hope the word gets round and we have the chance to perform for more schools. If I had to summarise Freedom Studios in a sentence, I would say fun, hard working, diverse and a breathe of fresh air from the north finally!'