Dominic Shaw

http://urbanangel.org/

Urban angel is a company set up by Dominic Shaw and the company is designed to rehabilitate youths within a community that would otherwise not get a chance to reform. The company takes on people within a certain age range that has been put forward by the institutes that the youths are from so for example a foster home might ask if the company can take on a group of 16-19 year olds to make a chosen performance.

The company is mainly site specific and the topics can be quite demonstrative of the groups background, the plays are sometimes pre written but often are devised by the group and what their ideas are about what they want to perform. So the work can be quite aggressive and they use the audience as a tool so it can be quite uncomfortable for an audience. It is important for them to have an audience to properly be able to perform and to get the reactions for them to progress the performance.

It allows them to reintegrate back into the community/society by introducing them to art, take it to them and allow them to have access to the opportunity.