A Scottish charitable organisation promoting health improvement, citizenship and environmental issues through the medium of the performing arts.
Workplace
‘Who says I’m a Windbag?’
Grampian Committee of Ash asked Live Wire Productions to deliver their anti-smoking message in a ‘Why not smoke?’ rather than a ‘Do not smoke!’ format.
Lasting 45 minutes, this upbeat play is performed by personified lungs, Larry and Len, who with audience participation and humour explain how the lungs work and how to keep them healthy.
This black comedy raises a variety of issues including lifestyle, peer pressure and advertising.
Larry explains how a harsh environment and industrial pollution as well as heavy smoking have damaged his lungs. He encourages his son, Len, to look after his own lungs.
WATCH OUT FOR THE LUNG CLOGGERS!
‘Brief Encounters’
Millions of man hours are lost annually due to absences attributed to mental health problems.
It is easy to ask someone who has been off with a broken leg ‘How is your leg?’ Though it should not be, we find it more difficult to ask someone who has suffered from depression ‘How are you feeling?’
Commissioned by VSA and core funded and endorsed by Mental Health Foundation, Scotland, ‘Brief Encounters’ aims to reduce the stigma and increase understanding of issues affecting mental health.
The experiences of the three main characters bring to light how easy it is to miss the signs of a decline in mental fitness and how this decline can affect more than just the sufferer.
The presentation lasts about 30 minutes but as the programme includes a ‘hot seating’ session during which the characters respond to questions from the audience about the issues involved the actual time is flexible.
‘The Bridge’
How committed are staff at keeping ourselves and others safe? Commissioned by an oil contractor to alert senior staff to realising everyone can be more conscientious and focussed on keeping safe as part of the Step Change programme.
This 25 minute scenario and problem solving exercise is ideal for safety managers to use to engage staff to be more alert! Participants are asked to act as a jury as Sgt Kingsman interrogates the living to establish the actual cause of death and where the fault, if any, lies.
Humphrey Dee is dead! A tragic accident! Or was it? Were there others involved or was it his fault?
All of those closely acquainted to the deceased, Rene Foster – his Doctor, Simon Kipling – the butt of his jibes and Mary Bouquet – his live-in girlfriend, may or may not have had some involvement in his death.
Ooh My Back Hurts!
Back Care and Safe Handling Practice
Back care professionals commissioned this programme to raise awareness of ways in which pain and suffering can be avoided and how to self manage back problems.
This highly amusing, informative 45-minute show features the two bin men, Will and Ken as they endure the hazards of work and leisure!
The attention of audiences is held by the play’s humour as they see a model of their back built out of a traffic cone, a corset and a coat hanger. They see the inside of a crunchie in a new light and learn the benefits of a healthy diet for lifelong, strong, healthy bones.
Demonstrating safe handling practices, the show presents practical advice on how to avoid minor back pain on how to avoid being a DOPE! Diet, Occupation, Posture and Exercise – the rules for a healthy back!
D Wardlaw ChM FRCS Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon says:
‘This is an excellent educational show that presents the ergonomics of back care. Most acute episodes of back pain can almost certainly be avoided by following very simple rules at home, at school and in the work place. This show says it all! I thoroughly recommend it as an educational and entertaining presentation of how to avoid back pain’
Back in 20 Minutes!
Commissioned by BP Exploration following a presentation of ‘Ooh My Back Hurts!’ to their manual handling staff across the UK, ‘Back in 20 Minutes’ addresses the potential dangers that surround a day in the office in the space of 20 minutes.
Performed in an open area or at a suitably adapted work station, ‘Back in 20 Minutes’ looks at health and safety issues faced by office workers including manual handling, risk assessments and repetitive strain injuries.
Everything in the way we live our daily lives can have a detrimental ‘knock on’ effect on the world around us.
Cleighnan Green works for the Council and is in the business of trying to save the planet. Cleighnan explains how easy-to-follow good energy saving practises can cut the wasteful use of valuable fossil fuels and how simple waste management methods, adopting the three ‘R’ rule of ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’ can limit the amount of rubbish we throw away thereby reducing the need for more, bigger landfill sites.
‘Cool It!’ also covers the effects of pollutants, erosion of the ozone layer, deforestation and the greenhouse gases on global temperatures and weather patterns.
‘RATIONal Food’
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Wartime rationing provided a healthy diet low in sugar and fat! The first Director of the Rowett Research Institute, Dr John Boyd Orr is known by many people as the man whose research led to free milk being issued to schoolchildren. Far fewer people are aware that it was on research instigated by Boyd Orr that the World War II rationing programme was based.
As part of their 90th Birthday celebrations, the Rowett Research Institute asked Live Wire to ‘resurrect’ Boyd Orr to show how relevant his original research and ‘You are what you eat’ philosophy are to today’s society.
For 30 minutes the audience is transported back to war-time Britain, in the middle of an air raid, when Dr. John Boyd Orr discusses the beneficial effects of wartime rationing compared to today’s ‘multiple choice’ marketplace. |
‘Save It!’
Saving energy at home and at work.
Grumpy Grandpa Watt has started to look more closely at his electricity and gas bills and has decided that his wife has to be educated! Brave man! Join Granny and Grandpa Watt in this light-hearted look at simple ways of cutting the amount of energy used in the home, saving money by reducing energy bills and helping the planet at the same time.
The Wheel of Science
The Live Wire Wheel of Science is an ideal medium to deliver specific topics or themes to your work force. Perfect for ‘Lunch & Learn’ sessions, or to underline messages already delivered,
‘Wheel’ presentations can be commissioned to address any topic. The Wheel of Science already has several manifestations including:
Theme |
Commissioned by |
Healthy Eating |
Rowett Research Institute |
The Environment |
Aberdeen Forward |
Drug and Alcohol Awareness |
Aberdeen Joint Alcohol and Drug Action Team (JADAT) |
‘Crimestoppers’ |
Crimestoppers |
Renewable Energy |
Shell UK Ltd |
Green Wheel |
Chevron Upstream Europe |
Water Safety |
Marine Rescue Institute |
‘Eating Smart’
THE ULTIMATE NUTRITIONAL QUIZ!
Again developed in conjunction with the Rowett Research Institute and using the Live Wire ‘Wheel of Science’, this quiz show challenges the audience’s awareness and knowledge of healthy eating options.
Hosted by Evershall Actwright with the assistance of his nephew Ken Nowt, ‘Eating Smart’ is a fun way to bring home to the workforce the advantages of a healthy lifestyle.
“The healthy eating quiz in particular was a great event and those who attended had a good laugh.” (Technip Staff at end of Health Awareness Day)
Live Wire Productions is an award winning theatre company based in Aberdeen and working mainly in Scotland delivering, presenting and engaging nearly 15,000 every year in all sectors of the community.
All Live Wire workplace programmes can be tailored to help meet learning objectives Should you wish to book one of the above programmes, details of costs etc are available by contacting us
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Past & present clients, partners and stakeholders include:
| Scottish Government | Aberdeen City Council |
| Shell UK | Aberdeenshire Council |
| Halliburton | Aberdeen University |
| Technip | BP Exploration |
| Health Promotions Western Isles | British Association of Spine Surgeons |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science | FitNut |
| Grampian ASH | Aberdeen Royal Infirmary |
| Grampian Heart Campaign | Age Concern Scotland |
| Scottish Association for Mental Health | Rowett Research Institute |
| Edinburgh Science Festival | Institute of Petroleum |
| Robert Gordon University | Scottish Prison Service |
| Aberdeen TechFest | Voluntary Services Aberdeen |
| Marine Rescue Institute | Schlumberger |
| ExxonMobil | Kent Festival of Science |
| Baker Hughes Inteq | Elf Exploration |
| Satrosphere | The John Wood Group |
| Grampian Police | Highland Sci-Tech Festival |
| Health Promotions Aberdeen | Health Promotions Orkney |
| Crimestoppers Scotland | Royal Cornhill Psychiatric Hospital |
Contact Live Wire Productions for further information on our workplace training programmes.
Tel: 01224 592777
Fax: 01224 592778