We are really thrilled that Sussex University and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation will be funding further development of THE GIRLS in 2012.

Ray Harrison Graham, BAFTA winning writer and director will write a new script based on the production he devised with the cast during 2011. Working with the same cast, this stunning piece will reach its full potential and make waves in the theatre world and beyond.

The aim is to run the new show for three weeks in the spring of 2012 at the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon, followed by a national tour, and a possible television production later in the year.

Thanks to our sponsors in 2011, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and the Tudor Trust. Special thanks to our continuing funders at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and to the Psychology research team at Sussex University.

This is the website for the newly formed company, THE PROJECT, a film and theatre outfit rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the Grassmarket Project’s recently defunct charitable operations.

The company was founded in October 2011 by Ray Harrison Graham (Artistic Director), and Giles Stogdon (Producer) with the aim of saving the valuable work they began with vulnerable young people at the Grassmarket Project.

We make ground breaking theatre and film, working with professional actors and talented but untrained young people excluded from mainstream society.

Our first production, THE GIRLS premiered at the Warehouse Theatre, in Croydon to popular and critical acclaim. It was the result of nine months of hard and rewarding work with young people who had once attended Pupil Referral Units, after being permanently excluded from their mainstream schools.