Arts funding for gun crime play

Published: 22 July 2016
Reporter: David Upton

Terriers

Liverpool’s Royal Court Trust has received funding of £42,127 from Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring programme.

The funding will allow the Trust to tour Terriers by Maurice Bessman, the play about gun crime, to youth and community venues (including Pupil Referral Units and Young Offender Institutions), libraries and theatres across the North West and the Midlands.

First commissioned by Merseyside Police in collaboration with Liverpool Football Club in 2008, Bessman’s play aims to reach disengaged young people in areas of high deprivation and low engagement who are exposed to gun and gang crime.

The play has been developed over time with input from young people in such communities and has is said to have had a massive impact on young people who have seen the show.

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