People sometimes ask what The Babushka Project actually does, beyond the play. The honest answer is: it’s still figuring that out, in public, on purpose.

The shape we’re working towards is simple to say and harder to do — Theatre, Conversation, Change. Theatre is the play itself: Babushka, my two-performer piece about the fifteen-year-old self I spent decades trying to bury. Conversation is what happens straight after every reading, when the audience — often including teachers and pastoral staff — talks openly about what they’ve just seen. Change is everything that insight should eventually feed: how schools respond, how adults are heard, how the play itself develops.

We’re not there yet, and I don’t want to pretend otherwise. There’s no accredited workshop, no finished curriculum, no proven programme — just a genuine invitation to build one together, informed by people who actually work with young people every day.

If that’s you, the Get Involved and For Education sections of this site are a good place to start.