Fighting an uphill battle, the outreach way

Instant Cafe Theatre Company has an outreach project that may help encourage more schoolchildren to be involved in theatre.

AN ARTS school may be a start, but the general feeling is that a more systematic approach to bring arts appreciation into the mainstream is needed. “Corporations often moan about how graduates these days don’t know how to think out of the box,” says Jo Kukathas, a seasoned theatre practitioner. “Well, maybe that’s because we’ve taken all the creativity out of our schools!”