The brand-new verbatim play in association with LUNG is performed and supported by the RSC’s Next Generation programme.
Production photography has been released for Factory, a brand-new verbatim play presented by RSC Next Generation Act young company, in association with LUNG, and supported by Next Generation Backstage and Direct.
Commissioned by the RSC as one of a series of events and productions celebrating 20 years of the RSC’s long-term partnerships with schools, theatres and communities this autumn, the play has been created by multi-award-winning campaign-led arts charity Lung.
Factory brings together the voices of young people, teachers, headteachers, school staff and policymakers from across the education sector, including RSC Associate Schools, and examines the changing status of creativity and imagination within the education system and the impact of a world shaped by grades, targets and behaviour points.
The production uses the disruption of Covid to question what value society places on the arts and finds hope in the teachers, young people and communities determined to keep imagination alive.
Factory is performed in the Studio Theatre at The Other Place, 16-19 September 2026.
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TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION
The play is performed by the RSC’s Next Generation Act young company and supported by young trainees from the RSC’s Next Generation Backstage and Next Generation Direct talent development programmes.
The Next Generation Act company is made up of young people aged 13-18 years old recruited from RSC Associate Schools in Barrow-in-Furness, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bradford, Cornwall, Hastings, Hull, Kent, Leicester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northampton, Nottingham, Peterborough and Sudbury.
Next Generation Act are joined by a Trainee Assistant Director, Trainee Assistant Stage Manager and Trainee Costume and Wardrobe Supervisor, all recruited from Next Generation Direct and Next Generation Backstage, who are undergoing a first paid opportunity with the RSC.
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CELEBRATING LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIPS
The production of Factory is one of a series of events to mark 20 years of the RSC working in long-term partnership with schools, theatres and communities.
On Friday 18 September, Factory will form part of the Building Partnerships: A 20-Year Story public arts symposium, providing colleagues from across the cultural and education sector the opportunity to share learnings from 20 years of partnership work in schools.
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