YPT Acting
YPT Acting’s forthcoming production will be Jungle Book
YPT Acting’s recent production of Holes by Louis Sacher was a sell-out success! Receiving several very complimentary reviews, the show ran for 11 performances
The YPT has successfully produced a number of productions, among which are:
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)
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)
Off-site at Invention Arts –
A specially commissioned musical: 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.
In addition to producing plays, the YPT is a regional partner for the National Theatre’s New Connections – their new writing and youth theatre scheme. We have played regional host to the National Theatre’s International Connections since 1999, presenting its own productions of The Pilgrammage, Nuts, Illyria and Don’t Eat Little Charlie, which was selected to perform at the Cottesloe Theatre.
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
The Young People’s Theatre is managed by:
Lee Lyford, Artistic Director on : 01225 823420 lee.lyford@theatreroyal.org.uk
Hannah Entwistle, Acting YPT Producer on : 01225 823430 hannah.entwistle@theatreroyal.org.uk