Is this it?

Is this it? is the title of the Parcans' contribution to Progress Youth Theatre week. The Parcans are 11 - 13 year olds who meet on a Saturday morning at the theatre. They have been working since Christmas on  improvising scenes in these sessions. They were given a subject or situation to work on in groups and come up with a scene. For example 'celebrities' led to scenes about Zac Ephron and Amy Winehouse. Eventually the scenes came together under a theme of "life and death; heaven and hell". The scenes are linked together by the use of a lift. We are moved from scene to scene via the lift with some set in the lift itself.  

The Strobes group are still hard at work on their Youth Theatre week production and as my Parcans interviewee didn't want her picture on the blog I've included a photo of a clay bear used in the animation sequences in  Beary Tales and Bored Office Drones. 

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Coming up...

Youth Theatre week - Parcans (11 - 13 year olds) 14th and 15th June "Is This It?"
Strobes (13 - 15 year olds) 18th and 19th June Beary Tales and Bored Office Drones.

Death and The Maiden by Ariel Dorfman 5 - 10 July 2010

See www.progresstheatre.co.uk for details of all our productions and auditions.