YPT Acting

Calamity Jane pictures by Nick Spratling

YPT Acting’s forthcoming production will be as part of the Family Theatre Festival.

The YPT has successfully produced a number of productions:

In the 900-seat Main House Theatre –

A commissioned adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1998)
Trevor Nunn & John Caird’s adaptation of Peter Pan (2003)
The National Theatre’s adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (2008)

In the Theatre’s 145-seat Ustinov Studio –

Hiawatha (2000)
The Snow Queen – Radio Edit (2001)
Grimm Tales (2002)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2003)
As You Like It (2004)
Animal Farm (2004)
The BFG (2004)
War Daddy (2004)
The Little Prince (2005)
Broken Hallelujah (2005)
Memory Map (2010)

In the Theatre’s 120 seat young people’s egg theatre –

The Witches (2005)
Nightingales (2006)
Lord of the Flies (2006)
The Trojan Women (2006)
Guys and Dolls (2006)
The Pied Piper (2006)
Broken Wings (2008)
Holes (2008)
The Jungle Book (2009)
Beasts & Beauties (2009)
Calamity Jane (2010)

Invention Arts –

The House on Hellmouth Hill (2003)
Daemon Days (2007)

… not to mention a myriad of home-spun devised and written pieces, and collaborations with companies such as English National Opera, Forkbeard Fantasy and Storybox Theatre.

Most recently the YPT presented an alternative tourist guide: an audio ‘map’ of Bath that took their audience on a colourful journey through the forgotten stories and reminiscences that lurk in the nooks and crannies of the city, led by an MP3 audio guide recorded by the cast.

In the Summer of 2003, YPT embarked on an international exchange programme with a theatre that shares our aims for training and working with young people, and producing excellent theatre: the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco (ACT). ACT is a major regional theatre on the west coast of America, and their Young Conservatory Director – Craig Slaight – runs a unique New Plays Program that commissions and produces new works from established playwrights to be performed by young people.

The collaboration has enabled us to co-commission four new plays for young people and for members of both youth theatres to workshop the plays with the writers. The plays are:

War Daddy by US writer Jim Grimsley
Broken Hallelujah by UK writer Sharman MacDonald
Nightingales by US writer Constance Congdon
Broken Wings by UK writer Sarah Daniels
My Life in the Silents by US writer Tim Mason
Riot by UK writer Ursula Rani-Smith

In addition to producing plays, the YPT was regional partner for the National Theatre’s New Connections – their new writing and youth theatre scheme. We played regional host to the National Theatre’s International Connections between 1999 and 2008 presenting our own productions of The Pilgrammage, Nuts, Illyria and Don’t Eat Little Charlie, which was selected to perform at the Cottesloe Theatre.

To apply for a place please return a completed application form to:
the egg
Theatre Royal Bath
Sawclose
Bath
BA1 1ET

Waiting List – 2 years