Rep Creative Learning presents Next Up Performance Festival

Rep Creative Learning presents

Next Up Performance Festival Fri 24 – Sun 26 March Performances at 7.30pm Bookings: 01382 223530 / dundeerep.co.uk

Tickets (fees apply*): £7 Concessions: £5 Festival Pass (all 3 nights, 9 performances): £15 Concessions: £12 *A £1.50 transaction fee applies to debit and credit card bookings.

Next Up Performance Festival Fri 24, Sat 25 & Sun 26 March, 7.30pm Next Up is a celebration of young theatre makers in Scotland. Using the stimulus of ‘The American Dream’ as inspired by our spring production of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, a variety of school groups and youth theatres have devised and created original pieces of theatre that will be performed over the festival weekend. Alongside the performances, there will also be an exciting festival programme including workshops from guest theatre practitioners.

To book tickets for performances please contact Dundee Rep Box Office or visit dundeerep.co.uk.

To book a place onto a free workshop please contact Creative Learning on 01382 342660.

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Grove Academy Youth Theatre

America in Therapy Fri 24 March, 7.30pm

America. The Land of the Free, land of hope and opportunity, where people go to dream big, live big and uphold the values of the constitution. But when questionable decisions are made and those dreams and ideals tip into self-indulgence, greed and homophobia it’s time for Dr. Gilbert to step in.

01382 223530 / dundeerep.co.uk

Monifieth High School

Step Inside Our Storybook Fri 24 March, 7.30pm

We’re going to tell you a Story. A story about broken dreams and distant memories. A story about equality and democracy. Is the American Dream now a worldwide nightmare?

Perth High School

American Dream: The Movie Fri 24 March, 7.30pm

Two would be movie makers pitch their movie idea to a high powered maniacal producer. The movie is called the American Dream. The film makers want to make a movie that explores what the American Dream truly means in the America of today. Will the producer help these would be movie makers to realise their vision and make the movie they want to make? How much would you give up in pursuit of your dream?

01382 223530 / dundeerep.co.uk

Little Red Theatre

New Day

Sat 25 March, 7.30pm

Acceptance, opportunity, perfection - could you be the one we are looking for?

However dark the moment, with New Day beginnings are always available.

A New day is waiting just for you.

Good luck to all applicants and remember: Every day is a New Day!

Fife Youth Arts

Mix ‘n’ Pick Theatre

Sat 25 March, 7.30pm

Sat 25 March, 7.30pm

Less Like Here...

Several young people who are desperate for another option, a way past the expectations put upon them and to be given the opportunity to make a decision for themselves.

We meet them just at the point where they grasp their future in their hands; some make a move; some find comfort in the familiar and others are left wondering what could have been. A piece about discovering the possibilities while still appreciating what you started with.

01382 223530 / dundeerep.co.uk

A Dream to Fulfil/Fail Mix ‘N’ Pick Theatre present a devised performance exploring the American Dream and the promise of the past faced with the reality of the future. Focusing on the changing mood of a new America, we look at whether all men are created equal and whether they are masters of their own pursuit of happiness.

Mearns Academy

Dreaming of Life, Dreaming of Freedom Sun 26 March, 7.30pm

A dreary classroom in Scotland.

Every child can dream. Dream of another life in a better place……

Dundee Rep Youth Theatre 11-13s

The Dream in Me Sun 26 March, 7.30pm

When you look at the phrase ‘The American Dream’ can you see the ‘I can dream’ within it? We bet you can now...

An exploration of The American Dream, what it is and what it could be but more importantly what our dreams are and how we will achieve them.

01382 223530 / dundeerep.co.uk

Dundee Rep Youth Theatre 11-13s

The Grass is Always Greener Sun 26 March, 7.30pm

It’s all the lights in the middle of the night It’s the food that makes you warm in the morning It’s the warmth of the sun in the summer and the crisp air in the winter It’s listening to the latest Frank Sinatra on the wireless on a Sunday afternoon It’s the simple pleasure of being with family and friends It’s the feeling that comes when you change the world, even a little It’s making your mark and leaving it there to stay It’s triumph and glory, the hope of a new tomorrow; the feeling of a new day 01382 223530 / dundeerep.co.uk

Dundee Rep 16-18s Youth Theatre Skellig by David Almond June 2015

Bookings: 01382 342660

Workshops: Saturday 25th March

1-3pm & 4-6pm Write Here, Write Now! Lewis Hetherington

Creating a Story Scott Gilmour

A hands on and playful introduction to playwriting. Through a series of exercises we’ll look at ways to build character and story in a colourful and engaging way.

We’ll write, talk and play games which unlock some of the ways that you can turn ideas in to scenes, and scenes into plays.

Open to everyone and anyone who is interested in how plays work!

Storytelling. Sounds simple enough. It’s a skill we use every day. But how exactly do we tell stories. How do we listen? What makes a good story and how do you take something that’s in your head and make it into something everyone wants to hear?

Lewis Hetherington is an award winning playwright and performance maker whose work is rooted in storytelling and collaboration. He is passionate about the possibility of art creating space for positive social change, and he has worked in a wide variety of places and contexts, from castles, to climbing arenas to community centres.

As associate of Analogue he co-wrote Mile End and Beachy Head, and wrote 2401 Objects. Most recently he co-wrote and co -directed Stowaway. With the company he has won two Fringe Firsts and the Arches Brick Award.

In this session we’ll explore the art of creating, developing and finally telling a story; looking at how that can affect and influence our lives as actors, writers, creatives and, most important of all, people.

This workshop will be practical and participants should arrive in comfortable clothing and be prepared to move (and act just a bit silly).

Scott trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and now works as an actor, writer and director across the UK and internationally.

All workshops are open to participants aged 11 to 19yrs and are free to attend but are of limited capacity and spaces are allocated on a first come first served basis.

Each of the workshops run twice, from 1-3pm and again from 4-6pm Please phone Creative Learning on 01382 342660 or email krobertson@dundeereptheatre.co.uk to book a space!

Please wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a bottle of water when attending all workshops.

Bookings: 01382 342660

Workshops: Sunday 26th March

1-3pm & 4-6pm How to Devise from a Sensory Starting Point Sharron Devine

Physical Theatre Stephanie Arsoska

Learn and develop your Devising skills to make theatre using your senses as a starting point.

In this workshop you will be introduced to Self-With-Others, an approach to building ensemble through physical theatre improvisation. Working with the body we will explore what it means to be present as a performer in pairs, small groups and as an ensemble as we give ourselves permission to play.

Some things cannot be expressed with words. The atmosphere for a new piece of theatre is often where I begin when making work - before a word has even entered my thoughts I’m thinking about the atmosphere I’d like to create and how I want my audience to feel.

During this workshop we will explore how we can use imagery, objects, music and atmosphere to begin generating potential material for creating new work.

You will leave the workshop with a bank of skills to use when approaching making your own work.

Be brave, be bold and come and join this fun and practical workshop Sharron is originally from Dundee where her passion for Theatre began at Dundee Rep Youth Theatre..

She went on to train as an Actor in London at East 15 Acting School and has been performing and making theatre for almost 20 years in the UK, Europe and recently New York City.

Stephanie Arsoska trained as an actor with the Cygnet Theatre Company before completing her degree in Drama, Applied Theatre and Education at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

She then worked as an actor and drama educator throughout London and completed a postgraduate certificate in Physical Theatre with the Jasmin Vardimon Company. She trained in the Self-WithOthers approach to building ensemble with the Duende Ensemble and is currently completing a MEd in Teaching and Learning in the Performing Arts at the RCS in Glasgow.

Dundee Rep’s Youth Theatre present

The Blue Road Double Bill Fri 23 June at 7.30pm Sat 24 June at 2.30pm & 7.30pm 17-19s Youth Theatre present The Blue Road

By Laura Lomas Directed by Lisa Williamson Music by Gary Cameron I remember the darkness I remember the silence I remember the water rising

The forest. The wake of an unnamed crisis. A group of young people work to make sense of what happened, what it means, and what they will do now.

The Blue Road is an exciting new play by acclaimed writer Laura Lomas exploring memory, loss, living in the aftermath and our capacity to begin again.

Commissioned by Dundee Rep, Derby Theatre, Royal and Derngate and Theatre Royal Plymouth; this inspiring project will see The Blue Road performed for the first time in four venues across the UK this summer.

14-16s Youth Theatre present Home Devised by the company Directed by Gemma Nicol Music by Gary Cameron My house is what I’ve chosen, the people I have chosen to be with, the places I have chosen to be.

Taking inspiration from The Blue Road by Laura Lomas and drawing on personal and political stories from neasr and far, this new performance will explore what home means to us in 2017.