So this is what's happening...

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There’s so much going on at YTYT at the moment I’d thought I’d catch you all up as sometimes it’s hard to keep track of what’s happening in groups other than the one (or two) you’re directly involved with…

And so here we go…

Gold and Purple Companies will be performing this Wednesday at Not Too Shoddy an exciting arts event in Ossett which is the vision of visual artist Jason Wilsher Mills.  After that Gold will be focusing entirely on their physical theatre piece “The Sea” which is to be performed at St Austin’s theatre on the 21st of July and will feature the immensely brilliant Stems as co collaborators.

Crimson are working on a brand new musical that will be performed at the beginning of July in the drama studio at Cathedral.  Auditions and casting is complete and I’m more than excited to see the results of their creative genius.

Black have a double project going on…half the group are in rehearsals for a production of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew and the other half are devising a modern retelling of the themes and ideas called, “Flawless.”  We’re yet to confirm exact dates/venue etc but we’re hoping that they will be performed mid June.

Sapphire are in rehearsals for Children’s Excursion Platform No. 5 a play written for Green Company originally which tells the story of children evacuated from Leeds during World War 2.

Then of course there are Orange, Ruby and Jade company meeting each week to enjoy a workshop of creativity, skill development and confidence building.  Jade are working on “Heard it in the Playground” at the moment to share with their parents at some point this term and Orange are concentrating on their devising skills.  Ruby are diving into a cornucopia of fairy tales and perfecting their ability to create images that tell stories.  All this plus of course in little over a fortnight our Connections production of The Wardrobe will go back into rehearsal for the regional showcase in Kendal – we’re significantly restaging it from an installations piece to a more traditional production.

So much going on and excitingly meeting were held this week to explore the next writers company project and another collaboration with Taproom Theatre…it never stops…thank goodness… 

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