Something Inside So Strong

'Something Inside So Strong' is a practice-as-research project, exploring how a youth musical can best be used for learning in both formal (school/college) and informal settings. Based on the songs of Labi Siffre, playwright Danny Braverman ran collaborative workshops with young people to create the musical. Informed by critical pedagogy, intersectionality and the author's own evolved dramaturgical framework, 'Something Inside So Strong' challenges reliance on the existing canon of commercial musicals, to create joyful, and moving performance events, rich in learning.