Participating in this year’s festival are:
to 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. Join us all weekend for inspiring performances by youth theatre groups from across Scotland and beyond! Follow the festival at:
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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 shadow puppetry, theatre sports, and the use of music in theatre - you can expect to see some wild and wonderful things happening in Rothes Halls and the Kingdom Shopping Centre all weekend! All performances are recommended for audiences aged 14+
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TICKETS: Per show: £5 (conc. £3); Day Pass: £8 (conc. £6) Family Ticket: £15 (2 adults & 3 children)
Performance Programme
– 1 July – It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To 19.00 - 20.00 | Main Auditorium Aberdeen Performing Arts Intermediate Youth Theatre aberdeenperformingarts.com Director: Clara Bloomfield. Movement created with Thomas Small. Do you ever wish you could go back to being 12? When you didn’t worry about your future. When ‘firsts’ became the game of choice; kisses, ‘relationships’, shave? When your p7 class was your world and ‘you’ll be friends forever, no matter what’? Do you ever think that ignorance is bliss? It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To is a coming of age story about realising how much everything - somehow without you really noticing - has changed forever. Suitable for 12+ There are some light references to activities of a sexual nature.
– 2 July –
Broken 15.45 - 16.45 | Main Auditorium Lab Station platform-online.co.uk Director: Lou Brodie “They worked with the seriousness of creators—and destruction after all is a form of creation”. A structure stands in the centre of the space, it is pulled apart, torn down, levelled and rebuilt before falling once again. The performers create a cycle of regeneration as they try to understand our need for destruction, the beauty held within it, and the systems we are all part of. Suitable for 8+ Bricks are used in the performance but a detailed health and safety explanation/demonstration for the audience is built into the show.
WeReallyWantToWinButWeDon’tWantToTryTooHard 19.45 - 20.45 | Main Auditorium Volcano Youth Company volcanotheatre.co.uk Director: Paul Davies Mentored by Paul Davies & Catherine Bennett Sport is good for you. It is about coming together and sharing dreams. Above all it is about the joy of winning! But what if you don’t like sport? Will the elation of victory always escape you? Are you, in short, a loser? A funny, risky, engaging show about the anxieties we might feel when we are thrown a ball or run a race. What does it mean to win or lose? How do we deal with the endless pressure and constant hubbub about sport? Suitable for all ages.
– 3 July – The Tide Creeps In 14.00 - 15.00 | Main Auditorium Collision collisiontheatre.com Director: Clara Bloomfield Memory is a reconstructive process whereby you piece together moments of your past to construct a coherent narrative. What happens during this process when the colour and shape of what you thought you knew and experienced is somehow blurred, altered or gone completely? What happens if your future depends on you remembering? Do you continue when that fatal ‘something’ is missing. The Tide Creeps In is a performance about five individuals seeking to remember, can they trust their own memories, their perceived truth and what has been ‘forgotten’? Suitable for 14+, contains strong language.
Workshop Sharings 18.45 - 19.45 | Main Auditorium Associate Artists: Scrapyard scrapyardtheatre.weebly.com – Caitlin Skinner and Caro Donald Everyone coming to the festival will have the chance to create five minutes of performance. Will they be raw or polished, loud or quiet; or have moments of rapture and stillness?
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 year. To find out more about our work and how to get involved with youth theatre, please visit ytas.org.uk facebook.com/YTArtsScot twitter.com/YTArtsScot
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