national festival of youth theatre
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Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th July 2015 Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife, KY7 5NX Tickets: £5 (conc. £3) per show; £8 (Conc. £6) Day Pass. Family £15 (2 adults & 3 children) Box office: www.onfife.com/box-office or call 01592 611101 Each year Scotland’s National Festival of Youth Theatre (NFYT) creates an explosion of young creative talent at the largest gathering of youth theatres in the UK. The festival enables young people to discover a shared passion and develop as artists, audience members and creative thinkers. NFYT always welcomes public audiences to enjoy what it has to offer, including six programmed shows, two scratch performances and a special short performance created by the Fife schools NFYT outreach project.TRANSCRIPT
03 - 05 JULY
2015
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland is a Company limited by Guarantee No SC 269952. Registered Scottish Charity No SC 035765
Welcome to NFYT 2015
Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre
Cumbernauld Youth Theatre
Firefly Arts
Lab Station
Perth Youth Theatre
Scratch the Surface
Shell‘ENGAGE’ Young Company
Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre
Argyll Youth Arts
Caithness Young Company (EdenCourt Creative)
Kildare YT
Nairn Youth Theatre (Eden CourtCreative)
Ryan Youth Theatre
Shazam Act
Tea PaP
Participating in this year’s festival are:
Follow the festival at:
www.ytas.org.uk/nfyt
YTArtsScot
#NFYT
Welcome to the 11th year of Scotland’s National Festival of Youth Theatre (NFYT).
This annual event is a celebration of the transformative power of youth theatre arts and is the largest gathering of youth theatre groups anywhere in the UK.
Join us all weekend for inspiring performances by youth theatre groups from across Scotland and beyond!
EVENT FUNDERS AND PARTNERS: SPONSOR:
HEUGHAN’S HEUGHLIGANSHEUGHAN’S BONNIE BEASTIESOUTLANDISH UK
NFYT is not just about watching shows. For all participating youth theatre groups it’s also about coming together, learning new skills, taking risks and discovering why making and performing theatre matters.
All performances are recommended for audiences aged 13+
Event Programme
Box Office
Box Office: ONFIFE.COM or 01592 611 101
TICKETS:Per show: £5 (conc. £3); Day Pass: £8 (conc. £6)
Family Ticket: £15 (2 adults & 3 children)
Featuring a series of creative workshops including storytelling,improvisation, movement and clowning - you can expect tosee some wild and wonderful things happening in RothesHalls and throughout the Kingdom Shopping Centre allweekend!
Performance Programme
Enough’s Enough19.45 - 20.15 | Main Auditorium
SHELL ‘ENGAGE’ YOUNG COMPANY
Directed by Rosie Reid
this performance will question what triggers us to take action, to finally sayEnough’s Enough’.
Directed by Claire Bloomfield
and all you want to do is just - breathe? ‘Have you ever wished you could start over, because it’s all too much...
FRIDAY 3 JULY
I’m Falling Off The Earth (Will You Catch Me?)20.15 - 21.15 | Main Auditorium
ABERDEEN PERFORMING ARTS YOUTH THEATRE | aberdeenperformingarts.com
‘Our eyes are heavy. We are exhausted. We’vebeen awake for longer than we can remember.
It’ s hard to see straight but the past which drove us here remains ever present. Should we carry on? Or is now the time to stop? What will it take for us to call it a day?’
Inspired by the dance marathons of the 1930s American Depression,
Proudly sponsored by Shell,‘ENGAGE’is a Fife-based youth theatre outreach project associated to the National Festival of Youth Theatre. By working closely with schools and community groups the project aims to raise awareness of the transformative power of youth theatre.
Pretended to be someone else, because it's easier than being yourself... Because you often wonder if you disappeared would people actually notice?
Have you ever... stolen something, nothing big just..?
If I fell off the Earth would you catch me?Well...would you?’
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THEATRE
Directed by Nicola Gray
SATURDAY 4 JULY
The Amazing Clinic of Armour and Smith11.30 - 12.30 | Main Auditorium
NAIRN YOUTH THEATRE (EDEN COURT CREATIVE) | eden-court.co.uk
Imagine if there was a place you could go to fix your broken heart, or cure your lovesickness. The Amazing Clinic of Armour and Smith does all that, and more.
They fix your love-related problems, big or small, but of course, even doctors get busy sometimes. One day both the doctors are out on call and the sorry contents of the waiting room are left to their own devices.
Unsurprisingly, the course of true love takes a hairpin curve.
Common Ground - A bitter-sweet and confidently quirky reflection on growing up in West Lothian.‘Common Ground’is the result of a two-year film project led by Jen Randall and Firefly Arts. It was developed and created with young people in every key position of the crew, from the art department to the directing team.‘Common Ground’has since been screened at this year's Fresh Film Festival in Limerick and as part of the Reel 2 Reel International Film Festival in Vancouver.
Firefly Arts Friday Film Club
In The MixShort films showing at 15.00 and again at 15.45 | Hall B
FIREFLY ARTS | firefly-arts.co.uk
#benefitsoftimetravel - Five friends battle against time to close a worm-hole and save the universe with the help of a mysterious time traveller.
‘#benefitsoftimetravel2’is currently in production in the Wild West of Lothian.
YOUTH
SATURDAY 4 JULYCONTINUED
S C R A T C H
T H E
SCRATCH THE SURFACE | stsmusselburgh.co.uk
Rose16.30 - 17.30 | Main Auditorium
Directed by Charles Hindley and Scratch the Surface Company
Boxing Day 2004. The world is rocked by the news that a giant tidal wave has struck the coastline of countless countries and shattered the lives of thousands.
A decade on, tsunami survivor Rose hits her mid-teens and finds herself at a crossroads: which way will she choose to go? Scarred by awful memories, Rose fights her own inner battle to take control of her thoughts and feelings and learn to live again. It’s a battle she must win...
Failure taught Edison to repeatedly innovate; to understand the changes to make before trying again, creating a thousand new discoveries along the way.
Through physical determination and direct
address storytelling, we create a rollinglandscape of 150 years to parallel accounts oflife in the present - the challenges we face, the obsstacles we overcome and the funwe have on the road to success. Cumbernauld Youth Theatre present a tale of hardwork, common sense and stick-to-it-ivness.
CUMBERNAULD YOUTH THEATRE
cumbernauldtheatre.co.uk
Test20.30 - 21.30 | Main Auditorium
Directed by Colin White & Debbie Montgomery
SUNDAY 5 JULY
Indigo
KILDARE YOUTH THEATREkildareyouththeatre.com
Directed by Evan Lynch and Kyle Walsh
12.00 - 13.00 | Main Auditorium
In May, Ireland held their own referendum, the topic of discussion being marriage equality. However, the young people of Ireland had no say in this decision, despite the fact that it directly affected the future Ireland that they all must live in.
This collection of devised scenes and pieces is the only public voice these young people had. And they chose equality.
Last September, Scotland held a defining referendum. The right to vote extended to 16 and 17-year-olds.
Lost & Found15.30 - 16.30 | Main Auditorium
TOONSPEAK YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE toonspeak.co.uk
Directed by Skye Loneragan
‘Can we lose what we don't first gain?’
A live performance and film installation created by Toonspeak’s core creatives whose curiosity has taken them to an intriguing public artwork, a mirrored box - a kind of Tardis which we now know is simply life’s Lost Property Box.
Come see yourself reflected, and hear how Royston can rap, roll and ride past your perception as we all search for something.
Lost & Found is a quest the Toonspeak core creatives have been working on withprofessional artists and Urbancroft Films to devise their own new writing, dialogue andchoreography.
SUNDAY 5 JULYCONTINUED
Two SCRATCH Performances
19.15 - 20.15 | Main Auditorium
Keep BreathingRYAN YOUTH THEATRE & LAB STATION present
Associate Artist - Jennifer Bates
Me, Myself and I(d)
CAITHNESS YOUNG COMPANY (EDEN COURT CREATIVE)& PERTH YOUTH THEATRE present
Associate Artist - Fraser MacLeod
Two youth theatres meet in one room for two days for the first time. A collision of ideas ensues. It will be raw or polished, loud or quiet; it may have moments of rupture and ofstillness.
The National Festival of Youth Theatre is annually produced by Youth Theatre Arts Scotland, the national development organisation for youth theatre.
Our mission is to transform lives through youth theatre by developing inspiring participatory opportunities for young people in Scotland, and by connecting, supporting and training the professionals who work with them.
We support a membership of more than 100 youth theatre organisations and freelance practitioners who engage around 23,000 young people in theatre activity across the country every week.
To find out more about our work and how to get involved with youth theatre, please visit ytas.org.uk, facebook.com/YTArtsScot and twitter.com/YTArtsScot
