-
The 200th Yew Tree Youth Theatre blog is written by Bobbie long standing member of the Green Company who meet in Pontefract every Wednesday night...following in Aaron Wiltshire's footsteps with the second Green Company blog ever...

Hey :)
I'm Bobbie, from the Green Company … basically Danny and Alice told me to write about the session at Yew Tree this week so that's what I’ll do...

So … we've been concentrating on the physical theatre side of drama at the moment which is, honestly, pretty cool as it's totally different to what we're used to. It's a nice change. It also made us focus too .. and the results of that really show.

What we did at the last session was kind of strange … but in a good way! I don't really know how to phrase it, but here goes anyway. Danny put us into groups and I was with, Sarah (Day) and Aaron (Wiltshire) and we basically had to control the other person by moving a part of there body and make a performance out of that. I really hope that made sense. Danny told us that it had to be made up of 12 movements, and we had to be watching a T.V in it. My group made it to be a horror that we was watching, with most of the time we just made each other cover their faces.

It was really nice to see how just a little more concentration could result in something really good. I also thought the fact that we weren’t ald to speak in the piece of drama was good because we had to rely on the other person in the group to move us into a correct position that would go with whatever we chose to do, and it also made us concentrate on our facial expression's were like as we couldn't hide behind our words.

Okay … I'm done now. Thank you for reading,
Bye
Bobbie x

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Chloe's Leavers Blog - finally :)

-
  Please excuse how this was written, I do a very silly drama school course, and I haven’t had to write more than my name in 9 months. I’m sat in my silly dorm bed writing me this on my DSA laptop (a win for the mentally ill girlies), realising how utterly bad my ability to Words has become. Anyway.. Leaving YTYT was one of the oddest experiences of my life, and yet, I don’t remember it at all. I’d spent the last few years, waving off some of my closest friends as they went on to conquer their dreams, in a tearful circle, yet all I have is a fuzzy memory and a video saved in an instagram highlight. I’d sell a kidney to try and bring back that experience, to do my final show unclouded by new medication and intrusive thoughts, but as that isn’t possible, I thought I’d finally write my leavers blog, even if it is a year late. I started Yew Tree in 2017, as a way to explore drama outside of the agonising GCSE setting, and across the years, it became a lifeline for me, providing confidence,
Read more

Arwen's Leavers blog

-
I made a start writing this leaver’s blog when I was on a bloody needed holiday over a month ago, on the glorious Isle of Islay in Scotland. I’m re-writing it now, because I think it was naff to be honest. And I’m not in the same mindset as I was then. Also I might have had a few too many drams of whisky whilst writing it there, so there’s that. A line I’ll keep from it however is: “How am I meant to do justice and summarise in my writing the enormity of an impact that Yewtree has had on me these last 5-ish years?” How can I articulate all the skills that I've learnt and developed? The experiences I’ve had? There’s so much, where and what do I start on? So I’ll do just that, and put some of the skills I’ve learnt into use: “You can’t be a creative, a critic, and an editor at the same time” But in fairness - I don’t think I could share and articulate all those things. And I’m not sure that I want to, they’re for me. I can’t put that expectation on myself. The past year I’ve felt as
Read more

Celebrating the past in the present...

-
  Next year Yew Tree Youth Theatre will be 30 years old.   We haven’t quite decided how we will celebrate - any suggestions would be gratefully received. No doubt there will be some nostalgic perambulating down memory lane and some haphazard but joyous celebrating of three decades of creativity we have shared.   Some variation of those two themes would feel fitting. This blog however is something different. This blog is a celebration of the present of those who attended YTYT in the past. Alumni, graduates, previous members – I can never seem to find the right term – but whatever word is chosen I know for sure they are part of the fabric of the youth theatre and I’m grateful to have known all of them, mainly because I have learnt so much from them.   I also can’t put a number on how many people have spent significant time with YTYT over the last 29 years.   I know we started with a group of 8 and now have about 80 members, I know at our peak just before COVID we had about 130 young pe
Read more