New Term at last!

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September has finally arrived which means that this time next week the YTYT term will have well and truly started and it promises to be one of the busiest yet...

September will be full of initial rehearsals for our Christmas shows...I love how as soon as we are back in the rehearsal rooms in the autumn term everything starts to feel festive straight away.  First week back at Gold we will be cultivating christmas carol splendidness and i can't wait! October we have the Miners Memorial Service and Halloween at Nostell as extra projects running alongside our main rehearsals.  These two events have become key events in our calendar and stretch and challenge the performs that take part in them in very different ways.  November will feature the Connections auditions and the Plays and Pints drama festival and December we will celebrate Christmas with our Festive Fairytales performance as well as an open mic night thrown in for good measure! It's an ambitious list and to be honest it isn't complete, there are other delights that will accompany these highlights but even with just these key events you get a sense of how busy we will be.

My main ambition for this term that you have the best YTYT term yet. That you have more fun, that you learn more, that you are braver, that you achieve more and that you are part of the best company of actors and creative people.  If you do this I automatically have the best term...it's an automatic thing.  I would like to look back in December and know that we have achieved this and the glorious thing is I have no doubt that we will.

See you all very soon and in the meantime keep an eye on the Facebook wall where there will be lots of information to keep you up to speed...if you're really keen and your script is written you can even start learning your lines - guaranteed to make your director happy!  

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