© Nina Lemon
Peer Productions x NACOA
50 Days: Alone Together
50 Days: Alone Together was a new improvised mini-series from youth arts charity Peer Productions. Developed by Peer Productions' talented company, during the first lockdown, and recorded entirely using zoom, 50 Days: Alone Together tells the story of ten teens and their first 50 days in lockdown. The drama was designed to support young people’s mental health and Peer Productions worked with a range of charity partners whose work both informed and supported the project.
The project was delivered via a range of platforms but the best way to access the drama is via Prospero powered smartscripts. This innovative software allows young people to make their own path through the story accessing the information, self-care tips and advice which are most relevant to them. They can also watch the drama unfold on YouTube and on Instagram.
This project marked a radical pivot for Peer from live theatre delivery to online digital practice and the impact on their tools of delivery and tactics for reaching young people was dramatic. Members of the Peer creative team demonstrated the work, together with insights into the challenges of creative risk taking and safeguarding during this particularly challenging time.
ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS
Founded in 2006, Peer Productions is an award winning youth arts charity specialising in combining high quality arts practice with peer education. Each year Peer Productions reaches 15,000 young people across the South East of England, enabling them to change the way they think and to make positive life choices. Their work is made with, by and for young people and focuses on three interlinked strands of Identity, Crime Prevention and Health.
NACAO (The National Association for Children of Alcoholics) was founded in 1990 to address the problems of children growing up in families where one or both parents suffer from alcoholism or a similar addictive problem.
Nacoa has four broad aims:
To offer information, advice and support to children of alcohol-dependent parents;
To reach professionals who work with these children;
To raise the profile of children of alcohol-dependent parents in the public consciousness;
To promote research into the particular problems faced by those who grow up with parental alcoholism.