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The delightful 9 year old Alice with her insight into 2017 at YTYT My favourite thing about yew tree in 2017 Looking back on my year at Yew Tree over all the things I’ve done, my most favourite thing I’ve done is the Christmas play. We do a Christmas play every year but I really liked the one we did this year. This year my company, Orange company did a show were there were lots of kids outside playing in the snow and eventually they don’t know what to do. Until somebody says we could meet a snowman. But nobody has a clue how to, then out of nowhere appears a snowman and the same happens but with evil Santa and a fairy. The snow man was on his way to the snowman conference, evil Santa was trying to take away Christmas but he didn’t because the children remembered there manners and the fairy granted a wish across all the children. Near the end of our magical mystical play after we met the snowman, Evil Santa and the Christmas fairy the children met Santa. Santa took the children to t

Mr Declan Kelly for your delight and delectation! Where has this year gone? This year I think has been one of my favourite years with Yew Tree by far. 2017 Connections has to be one of the biggest highlights of the year. I had the opportunity to play the part of The Narrator in Harriet Braun’s “Three”. This Connections play was like no other play I’ve done, we finally did comedy and to be honest we pulled it off so well. The whole connections experience was quite comedic with there been a power cut at Sheffield Crucible Theatre on the day of our performance. For me the best thing about Connections is that you learn loads of transferable skills which you can use for any other play. Techniques towards characterisation, vocal projection but also to have the opportunity to perform in local working theatres which gives us an insight to the industry. Playing the part of The Narrator was my favourite role of the year. A character who didn’t stop talking, loved the limelight and was over d

Emily is our next 2017 blogger - another delight of an insight into this year at YTYT This year, for me, at Yew Tree has pushed me in so many ways that I couldn't imagine. The year started with our National Theatre Connections performance of 'Three' at both our local performance and national performance. This pushed me most in terms of character as Lena was perceived as your typical teenage girl who loves boys and hanging out with her friends. However when I dug deeper into her, I discovered so much more about the way she ticks and how her mannerisms differ depending on who she's communicating with; which we see in the play is either inner self or Jamie. Definitely one of the more... interesting/annoying/funny events that happened during Connections was once we'd done our tech run at Sheffield Theatre to then have a power cut throughout the half of Sheffield so we'd have to perform on Monday. But hey, that'd show business! Then in May we had Yew Tree ass

This is the delightful Jacob Ladies and Gentlemen.... Well, what a year it has been. We’ve had good times, bad times and times that have made us consider whether we should’ve been so cocky to say that “2016 is as bad as it could get.” But that’s all in the past now (however recent it may be) and now we all look toward the next year in the hopes that maybe 2018 may be the good year. And I will delight in doing that with you all, once I’ve had one more round of remembering 2017 that is. But don’t worry for this will be a happy blog filled with all the niceness Yewtree had to offer me and so many others this year and will not contain the nastiness of the outside world that we at Yewtree call our “worsts”. So where to start, obviously the logical choice is at the beginning of the year and so that is where I will start. I am gold company so my blog contents will quite honestly be very similar to Connor’s so I must highly recommend reading his first because he’ll get through the year muc

Chloe is our next 2017 blogger - she's created another delightful read for you... Ever since I was about 5, I have adored acting. It may be the experience of seeing the world through someone else's eyes, or it may be an escape into a world different to my own. So, in February, when my dad said I was allowed to start an enrichment, I reflected back to a name I had heard on a few of my friends lips, ‘Yew Tree Youth Theatre’. I had done workshops and auditions with Sarah before, so she wasn’t completely a stranger to me. My dad phoned the number we found and I was asked to come for a trial the following Monday to Sapphire company. The moment I arrived, I was nervous. I’m not good with new people and feel shy and exposed, but the atmosphere at Sapphire was incredible. At first I stuck by my friend Elliyah, but eventually I made friends with so many different people, across different ages and backgrounds. I arrived at the start of a performance project, which was Yew Tree Assembl

Next in our 2017 blog is Ben... A year in Yew Tree Youth Theatre is not just a year of theatre, shows and performance, but a year of progress and the development of comradeship and friendship. Over the past year at yew tree I truly believe it has helped push me to become increasingly understanding, outgoing and mature as I’ve advanced through groups this year.  At the start of 2017 I’d just completed the annual Christmas shows with Sapphire Company where I took on a lead role of which was riding high on confidence off of and I found myself thinking I wanted more, I wanted a challenge and a new experience. So I joined the slightly older company gold and from then it was off to the races. My first experience of the new, more mature environment I found myself in was daunting, even though I already knew many members from previous projects together. The overwhelming, anxious feeling I had was all but lost within the first few minutes of the rehearsal where the

Maddie Mersini is our next end of year blogger! I have completed my first offical year at Yew Tree and i must say it’s been the best! It has opened so many new doors for me and I couldn’t be more thankful! Here’s one of my favourite pieces. Around October time, a few of us across the company’s did a Halloween performance at the Hepworth Gallery. It consisted of the Macbeth’s witches, Giselle and some poetry. I had the chance to play Giselle. It wouldn’t be the part I’d usually go for but I love a challenge so I stepped up to the plate and I loved it. From all the dancing and the beautiful story. What made it even better is when we got into the space dancing within all the paintings and sculptures gave it such a fitting atmosphere. It was very physical theatre based which is more my cup of tea. I had also never done a duet with a boy nor having multiple lifts in. All went well. Shout out to Tom for not dropping me. At the end of November, we had the chance to perform it again at t

Connor's 2017 Yew Tree Experience  So where do I start with my Yew Tree experience in 2017? I know! How about my very first session back on the 12th May? See during that time I had been taking GCSE Drama and had just finished my final performance when my friend, Elliyah, told me about this youth theatre group she went to on a Friday night. So I decided I'd give it a shot a see how it went, little did I know that it would be one of the best decisions I've made so far in my life. I was instantly hooked after watching Gold companies version of 'Bassett' up until that point and laughing at the hilarious modern fairy tales skit. But then something I didn't expect happened. Sadly, a member of Gold had to leave and now Sarah wanted Me to play that part! I couldn't believe it, I had been there for one trial session and was already been given so much more trust than I got doing GCSE Drama. So me, never being one to miss out on an opportunity to perform, accepte