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Welcome to NFYT 2015 Welcome to the 11th year of Scotland’ s National Festival of Youth Theatre (NFYT). This annual event is a celebration of the transformative power of youth theatre arts and is the largest gathering of youth theatre groups anywhere in the UK.
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Join us all weekend for inspiring performances by youth theatre groups from across Scotland and beyond!
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Participating in this year’ s festival are: Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre Argyll Youth Arts
Nairn Youth Theatre (Eden Court Creative)
Caithness Young Company (Eden Court Creative)
Perth Youth Theatre
Cumbernauld Youth Theatre
Ryan Youth Theatre Scratch the Surface
Firefly Arts
Shazam Act
Kildare YT Lab Station
Shell‘ENGAGE’Young Company Toonspeak Young People’ s Theatre Tea PaP
EVENT FUNDERS AND PARTNERS:
SPONSOR:
HEUGHAN’ S HEUGHLIGANS HEUGHAN’ S BONNIE BEASTIES OUTLANDISH UK Youth Theatre Arts Scotland is a Company limited by Guarantee No SC 269952. Registered Scottish Charity No SC 035765
Event Programme NFYT is not just about watching shows. For all participating youth theatre groups it’ s also about coming together, learning new skills, taking risks and discovering why making and performing theatre matters. Featuring a series of creative workshops including storytelling, improvisation, movement and clowning - you can expect to see some wild and wonderful things happening in Rothes Halls and throughout the Kingdom Shopping Centre all weekend!
Box Office All performances are recommended for audiences aged 13+ TICKETS: Per show: £5 (conc. £3); Day Pass: £8 (conc. £6) Family Ticket: £15 (2 adults & 3 children) Box Office: ONFIFE.COM or 01592 611 101
Performance Programme FRIDAY 3 JULY Enough’ s Enough 19.45 - 20.15 | Main Auditorium
SHELL‘ENGAGE’YOUNG COMPANY Directed by Rosie Reid ‘Our eyes are heavy. We are exhausted. We’ve been awake for longer than we can remember. It’ s hard to see straight but the past which drove us here remains ever present. Should we carry on? Or is now the time to stop? What will it take for us to call it a day?’ Inspired by the dance marathons of the 1930s American Depression, this performance will question what triggers us to take action, to finally say ‘Enough’ s Enough’ . Proudly sponsored by Shell,‘ENGAGE’is a Fife-based youth theatre outreach project associated to the National Festival of Youth Theatre. By working closely with schools and community groups the project aims to raise awareness of the transformative power of youth theatre.
I’ m Falling Off The Earth (Will You Catch Me?) 20.15 - 21.15 | Main Auditorium
ABERDEEN PERFORMING ARTS YOUTH THEATRE | aberdeenperformingarts.com Directed by Claire Bloomfield ‘Have you ever wished you could start over, because it’s all too much... and all you want to do is just - breathe? Have you ever... stolen something, nothing big just..? Pretended to be someone else, because it's easier than being yourself... Because you often wonder if you disappeared would people actually notice? If I fell off the Earth would you catch me? Well...would you?’
SATURDAY 4 JULY The Amazing Clinic of Armour and Smith 11.30 - 12.30 | Main Auditorium
NAIRN YOUTH THEATRE (EDEN COURT CREATIVE) | eden-court.co.uk Directed by Nicola Gray Imagine if there was a place you could go to fix your broken heart, or cure your lovesickness. The Amazing Clinic of Armour and Smith does all that, and more. They fix your love-related problems, big or small, but of course, even doctors get busy sometimes. One day both the doctors are out on call and the sorry contents of the waiting room are left to their own devices. Unsurprisingly, the course of true love takes a hairpin curve.
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In The Mix Short films showing at 15.00 and again at 15.45 | Hall B
FIREFLY ARTS | firefly-arts.co.uk Firefly Arts Friday Film Club Common Ground - A bitter-sweet and confidently quirky reflection on growing up in West Lothian.‘Common Ground’is the result of a two-year film project led by Jen Randall and Firefly Arts. It was developed and created with young people in every key position of the crew, from the art department to the directing team.‘Common Ground’has since been screened at this year's Fresh Film Festival in Limerick and as part of the Reel 2 Reel International Film Festival in Vancouver. #benefitsoftimetravel - Five friends battle against time to close a worm-hole and save the universe with the help of a mysterious time traveller. ‘#benefitsoftimetravel2’is currently in production in the Wild West of Lothian.
SATURDAY 4 JULY CONTINUED
Rose 16.30 - 17.30 | Main Auditorium
SCRATCH THE SURFACE | stsmusselburgh.co.uk SC
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Boxing Day 2004. The world is rocked by the news that a giant tidal wave has struck the coastline of countless countries and shattered the lives of thousands. A decade on, tsunami survivor Rose hits her mid-teens and finds herself at a crossroads: which way will she choose to go? Scarred by awful memories, Rose fights her own inner battle to take control of her thoughts and feelings and learn to live again. It’ s a battle she must win...
Test 20.30 - 21.30 | Main Auditorium
CUMBERNAULD YOUTH THEATRE cumbernauldtheatre.co.uk
Directed by Colin White & Debbie Montgomery Failure taught Edison to repeatedly innovate; to understand the changes to make before trying again, creating a thousand new discoveries along the way. Through physical determination and direct address storytelling, we create a rolling landscape of 150 years to parallel accounts of life in the present - the challenges we face, the obsstacles we overcome and the fun we have on the road to success. Cumbernauld Youth Theatre present a tale of hard work, common sense and stick-to-it-ivness.
SUNDAY 5 JULY Indigo 12.00 - 13.00 | Main Auditorium
KILDARE YOUTH THEATRE kildareyouththeatre.com
Directed by Evan Lynch and Kyle Walsh Last September, Scotland held a defining referendum. The right to vote extended to 16 and 17-year-olds. In May, Ireland held their own referendum, the topic of discussion being marriage equality. However, the young people of Ireland had no say in this decision, despite the fact that it directly affected the future Ireland that they all must live in. This collection of devised scenes and pieces is the only public voice these young people had. And they chose equality.
Lost & Found 15.30 - 16.30 | Main Auditorium
TOONSPEAK YOUNG PEOPLE’ S THEATRE toonspeak.co.uk
Directed by Skye Loneragan ‘Can we lose what we don't first gain?’ A live performance and film installation created by Toonspeak’ s core creatives whose curiosity has taken them to an intriguing public artwork, a mirrored box - a kind of Tardis which we now know is simply life’ s Lost Property Box. Come see yourself reflected, and hear how Royston can rap, roll and ride past your perception as we all search for something. Lost & Found is a quest the Toonspeak core creatives have been working on with professional artists and Urbancroft Films to devise their own new writing, dialogue and choreography.
SUNDAY 5 JULY CONTINUED
Two SCRATCH Performances 19.15 - 20.15 | Main Auditorium
Two youth theatres meet in one room for two days for the first time. A collision of ideas ensues. It will be raw or polished, loud or quiet; it may have moments of rupture and of stillness.
RYAN YOUTH THEATRE & LAB STATION present
Keep Breathing Associate Artist - Jennifer Bates
CAITHNESS YOUNG COMPANY (EDEN COURT CREATIVE) & PERTH YOUTH THEATRE present
Me, Myself and I(d) Associate Artist - Fraser MacLeod
The National Festival of Youth Theatre is annually produced by Youth Theatre Arts Scotland, the national development organisation for youth theatre.
Our mission is to transform lives through youth theatre by developing inspiring participatory opportunities for young people in Scotland, and by connecting, supporting and training the professionals who work with them. We support a membership of more than 100 youth theatre organisations and freelance practitioners who engage around 23,000 young people in theatre activity across the country every week.
To find out more about our work and how to get involved with youth theatre, please visit ytas.org.uk, facebook.com/YTArtsScot and twitter.com/YTArtsScot
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