Half Term Halloweeness...

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The last half term has been intense – 8 weeks long and full of all sorts of projects and hardly a moment to draw breath – in addition to the work we do as Yew Tree Arts in schools and for health services the youth theatre accomplished Plays and Pints, Castle of Dreams, The Miners Memorial service and of course all their weekly workshops.  For the week proceeding this one lots of people asked me if I was looking forward to a break over half term…I would smile wryly in response knowing that I had the busiest week ahead of me…by the end of it Yearbook would be ready for a three week tour of Wakefield schools and YTYT would have performed their Halloween at Nostell performances…not a lot in the way of a break…however the half term week was as lovely as it was challenging.

Creating two plays, for two different audiences to be performed 12 times in total over two days is a big ask…it makes demands on a company of actors – add to that the fact “Ghosts in the Garden,” was a promenade performance in the grounds of Nostell in the dark.   Also What a Witch involved talking to very small children – the most discerning of audiences.  Luckily I couldn’t have asked for a better cast…they were attentive, creative, generous and resourceful and the result was two shows that we could be more than proud of and lots of happy audience members.  The cast tell it better than me so read their blogs!


The week isn’t quite over though as I’m about to set off to go and see some of YTYT perform in out piece for the remembrance service at Nostell Priory church…a youth theatre’s work is never done…

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