Royal & Derngate's Saturday Youth Theatre groups are back!
Act One (8-10yrs) â Saturdays 10.30am til 12pm
Act Two (11-13yrs) â Saturdays 12.30pm til 2pm
Join our Saturday Youth Theatre groups and get creative! Be in a fun and friendly environment with a focus to increase confidence in theatre skills such as script-writing, developing characters and creating your own theatre. You'll be working with the brilliant theatre professional, Georgia Tillery-Randak and will be working towards creating your very own historical, theatrical fun theatre tour of Royal & Derngate.
This group is £70 per term. Limited bursary placements available.
Utopia Theatre is establishing an African Theatre Youth Academy to run regular performing arts classes and workshops to compliment the skills of young people 9-19 years with African oral storytelling and performance techniques to include acting, music, dance, learning a musical instrument, public speaking and film making etc.
What to expect: Workshops, Masterclasses, and Mentoring in a relaxed environment. A chance to participate in a performance (on stage or as part of the crew) every year
Workshops run on Thursdays.
Juniors: (9-13 years) 6-7 pm
Seniors: (14-19 years) 7-8 pm
In the final week of each month, there will be an opportunity to work with an industry expert in specific theatre skills.
Travel expenses will be covered for those who need them.
Receive one complimentary young persons ticket (13 to 19-years-old) when you book one standard ticket for selected productions at The Birmingham Rep!
As a city centre venue, we do not have any parking facilities. There are four disabled parking bays on Cambridge Street for any audiences with access requirements.
Accessibility information about The Birmingham Rep can be found here.
Terms and conditions:
Discount will be applied automatically at checkout when you add both tickets to your basket. Cannot be applied retrospectively. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Subject to availability.
The Dukes, in collaboration with LUNG Theatre and Barnardo’s Lancashire Young Carers Service, are working to share Young Carer’s stories and highlight the challenges they may face.
This year-long project, funded by the Victoria Wood Foundation, aims to foster in-depth creative relationships and share the voices of care-experienced young people, and young carers.
It is aimed at developing creative skills and confidence of young carers from low socio-economic backgrounds, building relationships with their local theatre, and offering respite from their caring duties.
Flourish is an 8 to 10 week creative programme for children and young people that uses theatre as a tool to support the ongoing development of positive wellbeing, confidence and self esteem.
The aim of Flourish is to support children and young people's mental health by using creative activities to help them explore and understand difficult emotions, develop positive communication skills, test out and adopt positive coping strategies to ultimately empower them so that they can take better ownership of their mental health and wellbeing.
What impact does this project have?
Children and young people who take part in Flourish are offered the opportunity to become ‘Creative Wellbeing Ambassadors, once the eight or ten weeks have finished.
This network provides children and young people with ongoing support, access to free cultural opportunities, training and social meet ups. This is so that they can help spread the power of the arts far and wide but also ensure that their own wellbeing continues to flourish.
Nonsuch Young Company Advanced is Nottingham's most creative Youth Theatre for children aged 12-15!
Nonsuch Young Company (Advanced) is an exciting new youth theatre from Nottingham's fastest-growing creative venue & theatre: Nonsuch Studios.
Each week, Nonsuch Young Company Advanced will have the opportunity to build on their interests in drama and theatre making learning skills so you have Everything you need to make a play, be it acting, devising, directing, stage production, performing etc. NYCA is a place for young people to be themselves, build confidence, develop theatre skills, make friends and have fun.
Each group will work towards a public sharing performance in the summer term, along with our Home Rangers group and NYC group. This will be a relaxed event and a chance for all Nonsuch Studios' young performers to showcase their work for friends and family at the end of the year.
Our open access courses, no audition required.
RYT Academy classes are fun and engaging, skills-based workshops with individual, termly modules. Whether you are a budding young actor or your aspirations lie in an unrelated field, this is a great way to develop life-skills and self-confidence. Classes are fun, interactive and ensemble based.
At the end of the term, the children will have the opportunity to share their work with friends and family.
Classes are held every day of the week, at Rose Theatre, Kingston and local external venues.
Act 2 is for Years 7 - 13
Our Act 2 course is a popular continuation of the skills and confidence founded in Act 1. The course is designed to introduce students to a whole range of acting techniques. Each term offers a varied theme from naturalism to Shakespeare to immersive theatre, with every session designed to develop skills, improve confidence and complement studies at school. You do not need to have been in Act 1 to start with us at Act 2.
For more details, please email.
Following support from the GeeWizz Charitable Foundation, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds are delighted to offer SENsory Youth Theatre.
These groups support young people who identify as learning disabled, neurodivergent, having SEN, or other social, emotional, and mental health needs. These groups give them the opportunity to participate in creative play within a fun, friendly, and accessible environment.
SENsory Youth Theatre starts a new term in January at Theatre Royal!
- Juniors (Ages 4 - 12) every Tuesday 4:15 - 4:50
- Seniors (Ages 13 - 18) every Tuesday 5 - 5:50
Blue Apple’s dance programme is designed to be a fun and creative means of developing fitness and self-expression.
"Dance helps to develop creativity, confidence and mobility. It’s also a great way to engage in exercise and is lots of fun!”
Some of us are natural dancers, but have not had the discipline of dancing with others in a routine before. Many have only danced to pop music and some are too shy to have done much of that. At Blue Apple we began by learning to be aware of others in the dance group, to move in time with each other, to react and respond, learn and remember a routine.
Through dance people with differing degrees of mobility have to think about timing and moving together, being aware of where each person is, responding to music and remembering a simple routine which may involve working in a circle, in pairs or as part of a large choreographed group. People who have never danced before appear delighted with their achievement.
We develop our dance experience in many ways. Some of us dance because we just love dancing and music and want to get fit. Some dance to help tell the story in our main shows and others tour commissioned dance performances locally and nationally.
Classes follow the school academic term.
£88 per term payable in one or two instalments. (£83 if already a Blue Apple Company member).
Our Ballet Beginners Course provides a fun introduction to Ballet, designed for adults of all fitness levels. Our experienced ballet professionals will guide you through fundamental techniques in a supportive and enjoyable environment.
If you are new to Ballet then this course is the perfect way to start your journey. These ballet lessons are also suitable for those of you seeking to refresh your skills.
The classes are held in top central London dance studios.
