The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre (NDM) is the largest and oldest professional theatre of the region, comprising four ensembles and three stages. It has been active in audience development since 2010 when its managing director Jiří Nekvasil started the Summer theatre school for educators. Following this, the educators and other staff founded a non-profit Studio for Children and Youth, an essential part of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre to this day.
After the renovation of Jiří Myron theatre in 2018 the theatre opened The Theatre Education Atelier at the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, a centre for theatre education and creativity, which has been serving as a venue for all audience development events of the theatre since then.
In cooperation with the Studio for Children and Youth, the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre (NDM) offers a wide range of audience development programmes for its own audience as well as the wider public. Among these are play-themed workshops, theatre tours, discussions with artists and experts and regular courses and workshops. The theatre also has special offers tailored to schools including project-based day events, workshops led by artists, courses for teachers, and workshops about specific topics in the history and theory of drama.
Audience development at NDM additionally focuses on long-term projects for various target groups. The theatre’s youngest audience members can become members of the Drama Studio at NDM (‘Činoherní studio’) or the Drama Group Memory of Nations (‘Divadelní kroužek paměti národa’). Pensioners can join group discussions with emeritus artists of the National Moravian-Silesian theatre, talks on the theatre’s history or the senior drama studio. Additionally, families with children can benefit from weekend or regular drama workshops and interactive performances.
The Studio is currently run by Daniela Jirmanová, Tereza Strmisková, Radana Otipková, Vladimíra Dvořáková and Sylvie Vůjtková.