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Action Transport Theatre run two Youth Theatre groups 11- 14 years, and 15 –18 years, for local young people who want to be creative, meet new friends, learn new skills and have a great time.
Junior Youth Theatre
4:30pm – 6:30pm Every Tuesday (in term time)
Senior Youth Theatre
4:30pm – 6:30pm Every Wednesday (in term time)
Each group explores devising, creating characters, games, team work and performance skills.
The groups are led by professional Youth Theatre Directors with a wealth of experience in performance, physical theatre, script writing and music.
We aim to reflect the strengths, interests and abilities of all the young people in the groups, and to enable them to feel creatively empowered and able to develop their skills and themselves.
As an arts and ideas company, members of the Youth Theatre are encouraged to bring all their ideas to sessions on Tuesday night and share them with their group, this might be a play they want to see, an idea for a play, an idea to improve the building, or a new piece of music……
More and more, Action Transport Youth Theatres are connecting with other organisations, theatres, and theatre companies. Youth Theatre members will have the opportunity to see professional shows in the North West region, to meet other Youth Theatres in the North West region, and to take part in the annual, national Big Youth Theatre Festival in London.
Alongside the Youth Theatre we have a group of Young Writers and together these groups are the beating heart of Action Transport Theatre Company, and where possible we try to connect these groups together. One way we do this is to run a two week Summer Project in the holidays linking the groups together, creating, and performing a new play within the two weeks.
As a professional theatre company, Action Transport create brand new professional theatre that tours throughout the country – Our Youth Theatres and Young Writers have access to the rehearsal process, to the creative team, and are guaranteed a free ticket to the premiere of all our shows!
To find out more please visit www.actiontransporttheatre.co.uk, or contact Louie Ingham (Projects Manager & Senior Youth Theatre Director) on 0151 357 2120 or louie@actiontransporttheatre.co.uk
Junior Youth Theatre (back to top?)
Every Tuesday / 4:30pm – 6:30pm / £1.50 per week
Weekly sessions explore improvisation, games, team building, story making, creating characters and performance skills.
Since 2002 the Junior Youth Theatre have created at least one production each year.
The productions are performed by the members themselves, supported be a professional creative team, including designers, composers, writers, and directors.
Most recently the Junior Youth Theatre began working on a brand new play as part of a national programme called Shell Connections. Each member of the group had a part (or in some cases a number of parts!) to play in this large cast show called “The Miracle”.
In March 2006 “The Miracle” played to jam packed audiences in the Whitby Hall Studio to great success! “The Miracle” then performed at Clwyd Theatr Cymru where the members got to meet other youth theatres and see their work too.
Images from “The Miracle” March 2006
Senior Youth Theatre (back to top?)
Every Wednesday / 4:30pm – 6:30pm / £1.50 per week
Weekly sessions explore improvisation, games, team building, story making, creating characters and performance skills.
Since 2002 the Senior Youth Theatre have created at least one production each year.
The productions are performed by the members themselves, supported be a professional creative team, including designers, composers, writers, and directors.
Since January 2006, the Senior Youth Theatre have been devising a new play exploring the themes of new worlds, love, hate, hope, space and time. The ideas and stories that they have developed have been written into a new script by a combination of the Action Transport Young Writers, and Action Transport Writers. This brand new play called “The Universal” reflects the thoughts, ideas and creativity of both the Youth Theatre and the writers and will premiere at Whitby Hall Studio on Monday 10 th July for a 3 night run.
The Universal will then tour to The Big Youth Theatre Festival in London on 13 th – 16 th July and will be performed to Youth Theatres from across the country!
Images are “Raver” - a two week Summer Project, August 2005
