Chelsea’s Story is our internationally recognised applied theatre production exploring the complex realities of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and the subtle ways in which grooming can take hold. Created to support safeguarding education in schools, the play has been seen by hundreds of thousands of young people and professionals across the UK and internationally.

This newly redeveloped 2026 version has been created in consultation with a range of safeguarding professionals and partner agencies, ensuring the stories reflect the realities young people face today.

Through a powerful blend of live performance and recorded testimony, the play follows Chelsea and Josh as they begin to unpack stories that at first seemed ordinary - stories about attention, friendship, opportunity and someone who appeared to care. As the narrative unfolds, the characters begin to question what really happened, how manipulation works, and why exploitation is often so difficult to recognise while it is happening.

Chelsea’s experience shows how grooming can develop through attention, gifts and emotional manipulation. Josh’s story explores the exploitation of boys within a sporting environment, highlighting how positions of trust and authority can be abused. Running alongside these is the story of Amara, whose relationship begins online, revealing how grooming can also develop through social media and digital spaces where flattery, validation and secrecy can slowly build dependency.

By placing these stories side by side, Chelsea’s Story reveals the different ways young people can be targeted and controlled - offline, within trusted institutions, and online - while also challenging common assumptions about who victims are and how exploitation happens.

Designed specifically for young people and professionals working with them, the production creates a safe but honest platform for conversation around one of the most sensitive safeguarding issues facing young people today.

Unacceptable is a powerful applied theatre production exploring sexism, misogyny and the everyday attitudes and behaviours that contribute to gender inequality.

This newly redeveloped 2026 version has been created in consultation with a range of safeguarding professionals and partner agencies, ensuring the stories reflect the realities young people face today.

The play begins with Adam, a teenage YouTuber, speaking directly to the audience about something he has recently begun to understand - that many of the ideas and behaviours he once thought were normal may actually be part of a much bigger problem. When his friend Kalyn interrupts one of his recordings, what follows is a challenging and often uncomfortable conversation that forces Adam to confront the language, assumptions and online content he has been sharing.

As the discussion unfolds, the characters begin to unpack what sexism and misogyny really mean, the many forms they can take, and how unconscious biases and stereotypes can shape the way we think and behave. Rather than focusing on blame, the play explores how harmful attitudes can become normalised in everyday culture - the 'toxic air' that surrounds us - and how recognising them is the first step towards change.

Through humour, honesty and direct audience engagement, Unacceptable invites young people to reflect on their own assumptions, challenge harmful narratives and consider the role we can all play in creating healthier, more respectful relationships.

Going to Extremes was developed out of a growing need to kick-start conversations and build resilience around extremism and radicalisation.

Exploring far-right as well as Islamist-inspired extremism, the muti-media play looks at what happened to three young people that found themselves targeted by individuals or groups that wanted to use them for their own agenda. Danny, a young man who was angry that his parents had separated, found himself getting involved with a far-right group. Ayesha, a young girl who wanted to be a nurse, was targeted online by a group that wanted her to go out to Syria to help Isis and Kamal, a young man who had issues fitting in with his community, found himself out in the desert training to fight a holy war. Using simple story-telling techniques their stories are played out and examined in an attempt to understand how and why they were targeted and how young people can be resilient to this sort of thing happening in the first place by encouraging an open dialogue and conversations about the issues as well as empathy, understanding and respect for others’ views and beliefs.