Questions & Answers
Q: What are the benefits of the Community
Play?
A: ● Giving the community an opportunity to
discover and celebrate its history.
● Challenging some of its contemporary
views, prejudices and preconceptions.
● Enabling people to have a collective voice to
express their concerns through democratic process.
● Offering individuals a stronger sense of identity and personal association with
the town in which they live.
Q: Will it help Farnham societies and
organisations?
A: ● Yes, the events and activities will give all societies and
organisations an opportunity to work together to relieve any
sense of separation that they might feel or experience and help to
restore and unite a flagging community spirit.
Q: What is the main idea of offering to help
Farnham societies and organisations?
A: ● The events and the play can help to break down cliques by drawing everyone together with a
new, wider and inclusive enterprise.
Q: Our organisation/society isn't isolated,
so how will this help us?
A: ● That's excellent to hear - join Our Farnham Community Play now and join
in with us!
Q: How will it help Farnham and the
surrounding villages?
A: ● It will demonstrate that cultural events, especially 'theatre' and the
idea of celebration can be fundamental to the growth of a healthy
society.
● Encourage
a community to make a greater personal investment into the future
because the individual feels more empowered and effective.
Q: How will individuals benefit?
A: ● Be a great leveller - no class, social, racial, sexual, political,
interest or age barrier. Individuals can demonstrate that they have a
valuable contribution to make - preconceptions and prejudices are
diminished.
Q: I've never been involved with
anything like this before, so will I
be out of my depth?
A: ● No!
Professionals are engaged in the process and they help to strengthen and broaden
horizons, stimulate, set new standards and encourage everyone's ideas.
That's your ideas as well!
● As an individuals
you will have the opportunity to stretch yourself as much or as little
as you wish to and you will have the opportunity to gain a vision
of the extraordinary being possible.
● You will
be able to develop your existing individual skills and explore/build new ones.
Q: How will I work with other people?
A: ● People can learn to respect others ideas, explore common ground and
develop skills in group problem solving, rediscover the joy of
co-operative participation and collaborate in the pursuit of achieving
collective goals.
● As the
community becomes more aware of its range of skills, people see the
strength these assets bring to a cohesive
community which benefit the work of every individual.
