Man Alive

The Kids are United (1980x11)

Air date: Apr 10, 1980

A children's theatre in Islington, North London, that began as an out-of-school experiment 11 years ago, now has a waiting list of over a thousand. Middle-class parents queue up to enlist their children, but it's a theatre that stays close to its Cockney origins. Anna Scher , was invited to take a small group of her Islington charges to Belfast. They took over a hall in one of the city's toughest areas and played host to 70 children from all over Ulster. For three days this small army of children, Catholic and Protestant, took a first exhilarating plunge into improvised drama, acting out their own scenes-scenes that had emotional roots in their daily lives. This is the film and story of that dramatic weekend in Belfast - and its interesting sequel.