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  My Blog   Considering how much of a hectic year this has been for some, I think it is important to write down our thoughts and feelings. This is my first blog for Yew Tree Youth Theatre so I would first like to mention about in January I took my Grade 6 LAMDA exam and came out with a distinction! Hanging on my wall is my medal which I am so proud of with my two speeches I did. My first speech was To Be or not to Be monologue performed famously by Hamlet in Hamlet by Shakespeare, it was a challenge to work out what it meant so for anyone who doesn’t understand old English monologues there are plenty of old English translations that helped me answer my questions a lot. My second speech was Chaos where I described a scenario of a butterfly at the train station where I essentially had to decide what the dramatic effect was of the monologue.    Participating in To Write A Monster with Gold Company later in June was an interesting experience with such talented actors tha...

  What a year. I’ve never actually written a blog for YTYT before, I’ve always been a little afraid - although I don’t know what of. Given that everyone at Yew Tree are the kindest people I’ve ever met. So here’s to my first ever YTYT blog! It’s a long one, the whole blog comes in at an outstanding 2522 words. So, TLDR: I love YTYT and everything related. I love every person at YTYT. Everything about it has a special place in my heart forever. Thank you Yewtree, thank you Gold company and especially thank you Sarah. ^There are some special messages to everyone in Gold Company at the bottom if you’d rather not have to read it all to get to them     When I was writing up a plan for the order of this blog, I had wanted to pick a highlight from 2023 and talk about it here. However upon reflection over my year, I honestly could not pick a highlight if you forced me to. Not because the year has been horrible, on the contrary. YTYT has been utterly fabulous this year. I’ve had m...