Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 10:57AM We're delighted to welcome Chris Mercer, who starts today as the new Intern at ICT. He'll be working alongside the Oracle Project in Highbury and in the office every Wednesday. Chris is a second year BA Community Theatre Student at East 15 Drama School in Southend.
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 3:50PM 
Rochelle Rose, our new project intern and Work in Progress member, describes the first workshop for the Embryonic? project ...
Last Saturday the embryonic? company completed our exploratory workshop in the theatrical possibilities surrounding Stem Cell research.
The day began with a crash course in ‘Funky Philosophy’ –described by Philosopher John Tucker as philosophy away from the classroom. Dale Bancroft from the Biochemical Society delivered a presentation in which he explained what stem cells were, where they could be found and what they could be used for. We were shown a video clip that discussed the opinions and feelings for and against stem cell research on Embryos.
Taking into consideration everything we had heard throughout the morning the group composed questions that highlighted what interested us most about the topic. These questions sparked debate as we all donned our figurative philosophical thinking caps and so, equipped with all these opinions and facts the company spent the rest of the day interrogating the topic of stem cell research and devising our own pieces of theatre.
As one of the young people given the opportunity to direct one of the plays written for the project I cannot wait to see what the playwrights Hassan, Joy, Maxine and Tim write for us.
The Embryonic? project will culminate in performances on Friday 4th June at Charles Darwin House in Holborn.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 1:48PM 
We're kicking off a mini new writing project on Saturday when we launch Embryonic? in collaboration with the Biochemical Society.
Embryonic? is a chance for four professional writers, four young directors aged 16-22 and 20 young people to explore the controversial topic of Stem Cell research. The writers joining us for the project are Joy Wilkinson, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Maxine Quintyne-Kolaru and Tim Cowbury.
Each writer will use the exploratory workshop on Saturday, led by scientists and facilitators from the Biochemical Society, as a basis for creating a new 10 minute play that will then be rehearsed and performed by our young people on Friday 4th June at Charles Darwin House in Holborn.
The new plays will be directed by Kwami Odoom, Daniel Rickler, Rochelle Rose and Daniel O'Keefe.
