The next bit of the adventure...

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The annual autumn goodbyes have started and will unfortunately keep going for the next few weeks.  This week Natalie said her last goodbyes to Yew Tree as by our next session she’ll be safely ensconced at St Andrews studying Maths and Spanish and Rob who’s been back for the summer disappears to foreign climes.  This is a sad and brilliant time for the Youth Theatre as although I’m sad that we lose people it is so very brilliant that they are embarking on the next stage of what I am sure will be a great adventure.  This year we have YTYT members going to study English, Music, Sociology, Theoretical Physics, Psychology, Medicine, Languages and that’s in addition to the two wonderful people who’ve got into two of the best acting training establishments in the country and the one that flies out to spend the entirety of his next year in Hong Kong…I couldn’t be more proud to know these people and feel more privileged to have been a part of their lives…

I’m really eager to get on with what’s next though…this week we have a holiday from all things YTYT – there are only the writers meeting – I hope to congratulate themselves on the excellent work they presented at the Writers Festival on Wednesday (see Alice and Joanna's and Ellie’s blogs for more details.)  Everyone else has a week off.  However on Saturday break will be over and we will be able to get stuck into all the magic that the autumn term offers…I am positively giddy with anticipation…I have four productions to direct of which one is yet to be finished in terms of the script – the development of our Chrysalis youth theatre, Lit fest, The Miners Memorial service, Halloween at Nostell and that’s before we start auditioning for National Connections…

So as much we will miss our absent friends they can rest assured that we won’t have much time to worry about it as we will be too busy getting on with the next bit of our adventure…

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