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Yew Tree artists have been the grateful recipients of input this week. Danny, Gemma and I attended the National Association of Youth Theatre’s “Raising the Game” event in Darlington. The first bit that’s important in that last sentence is the location…the place the event was held was right next door to my old Sixth Form College…and close enough to where my Mum and Dad live to be able to stay at their farm house…always a rejuvenating experience. Aside from all the fortuitous geographical coincidences “Raising the Game,” is a chance for youth theatre directors to participate in workshops instead of leading them. Amongst a rich and varied programme Gemma attended a workshop on making text accessible, Danny got to work with masks and I devised a musical theatre number about a beautiful flower…In addition all of us got the opportunity to work with the truly inspirational Jeremy Stockwell…

Of course nothing is perfect and at times we were outraged, bewildered sometimes even bored by those seen to be at odds with our established and emerging values or in some cases those who were just plain dull…

Despite these slight setbacks we return from Darlington full of home cooking, enlightenment, affirmation and even some new games…eager to be able to get started on the new terms work…I can’t wait til Monday when my workshops begin again so I can catch up with all of my youth theatre’s but mainly so we can return to our business of creating, playing and performing…

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  1. Rob Girgis30 April 2009 at 13:29

    Surely we should have a comment about the lengths our youth theatre leaders go to raising there game....

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