About TIE
Theatre in Education (TIE) involves the performance of a play by professional actors, which stimulates the active participation of the audience of young people in the real world of the characters. By going back to the essentials of theatre - a space, an audience, a story that has to be told - the pioneers of TIE created models of playing where the real hopes and fears of children, as well as issues that affect them, could be represented in serious and challenging ways that stretched the boundaries of what theatre was thought to be and offered rich opportunities for active learning.

In the case of TEAM a programme usually consists of a school visit by Team's Education Officer, Muireann Ahern, two weeks before the performance, to initiate the programme with students and teachers.

The performance of the play is followed by a drama based workshop with students, exploring the central themes in relation to the characters and, through fictional contexts, in relation to the individual members of the audience.

Teacher's resource materials are also provided which include suggested activities to help stimulate discussion, raise questions, and explore choices and possibilities in relation to the programme's central themes.