Seize the Day 2024: DTEA recap

It's a wet and windy Wednesday evening in Leicester. The streets are dark and desolate. But inside the city's Curve theatre something remarkable is happening. Young people from the Young Community Company have taken a break from rehearsals of their production of Gargantua to talk with Liz Kendall, their local MP, about why drama and theatre matters to them.

It's not a chance encounter but one of more than 65 events that took place between 20 March – World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People – and 27 March as part of the Drama and Theatre Education Alliance's Seize the Day campaign. Schools, theatres and universities from Bolton to Bristol and London to Leeds invited their local MPs, councillors and school governors to observe a workshop, drama lesson, rehearsal or production.