Irvine Theater Company Gets $21,250 Grant
IRVINE — The Irvine Health Foundation has given a $21,250 grant to a theater company that specializes in performing plays on social issues at area schools.
The grant will allow STOP-GAP to perform 50 of its socially relevant plays in Irvine schools and before youth groups. STOP-GAP members use drama and role-playing as a means of discussing subjects such as drug abuse and problems within families.
The 15-year-old theater group holds a discussion after each play to talk about problems presented in the play and ways of dealing with them.
The Irvine Health Foundation is in its eighth year of raising and donating money to health-related programs and research in Orange County and has helped fund STOP-GAP’s performances since 1990.
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