Current Opportunities for Members:

Little Manfred Development Workshop in Salisbury

(Starting in November 2021)

The Soldier’s Arts Academy is a platform through which serving and ex-serving military personnel and their families can participate in the creative and performing arts.  We are currently developing a stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel, Little Manfred and are looking for participants from the Salisbury Plain area.

Little Manfred is a touching story about the way lives become entangled during conflict and how, unexpectedly, those ties can lead to enduring friendship. When Charlie and her little brother Alex meet two men on the beach near their home, they hear the unusual story of how their friendship developed, despite fighting on opposing sides, and how their past links to their own mother's childhood. 

We would love as many people as possible to be part of this exciting new production. There are opportunities to take part in all aspects of the production, from script writing and acting, to set design, lighting and direction. Participants need to be 18 years or older.

To take part you will need to have come to at least two of the online theatre workshops for this project. You can do this by going to our website soldiersartsacademy.org and then by hitting the workshop button at the top of the website. There you will see all our free workshops and the workshops for Little Manfred which are on Wednesdays from 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm. These workshops, and any of our other programmes, are open to serving and veteran personnel and their families for free and to everyone else for a donation.

We will also be running two in-person development workshops at Salisbury Playhouse on 9th and 10th February 2022 (10.00 am - 6.00 pm). The workshops will include developing the script and working with the production's design team. They will be led by Damian Cruden, former Artistic Director at York Theatre Royal and Amanda Faber, producer and CEO of The Soldiers' Arts Academy. 

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