Playing with Sculptures

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Yesterday Gold Company and I had the nicest time at The Hepworth.  We were invited to go and play with the sculptures there specifically those in the Franz West exhibition and it was the perfect way to end what has been a very hectic summer term at YTYT.

Over the course of the morning we played a glorious version of park bench in amongst the sofas of Gallery 1.  We made a very short but lovely stop motion film which I’d love to go back and extend…we played with the Franz West adaptives and created short glorious scenes featuring sneaky gangs, black walls, fashion shows, personality changes and a deluded prisoner – or was she…we allowed the plaster heads to tweet and visited The Calder so we could discuss the Arts Party we are going to be working with The Hepworth on in August.  It was a celebration of play, dialogue and ridiculousness with the fitting finale of the morning being when four members of the youth theatre emulated the wire faces of the learning studios to gorgeous comic effect.

So many of the wonderful things we get up to in the rehearsal rooms go unseen and so it should be but it was delightful to take the YTYT joy out and about and have a new playground to play in…the Gold Company members that took part were the most excellent ambassadors – once again exceptional pride in my youth theatre…


Next we have the joy of Black Company Summer at Nostell – please come and see our play at the end of the week…it would be lovely to see you there!

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