Ever wondered what the backstage team do on a show?

Apply for our Youth Company: Theatre Production and explore practical elements of theatre making including production, management and design from concept to stage.

Regardless of your experience or background we want people who are passionate, curious and keen to learn. Come and see how your creative or organisational skills can be used to make a theatre show.

This is a free course which is part of our Access and Participation work. It is an eight month long course available to young people age 16-21 who meet certain criteria which takes place on Saturdays and gives you the opportunity to experience technical theatre training.

The types of things you will learn:

- Stage Management

- Sound Design

- Lighting Design

- Video Design

- Costume

- Hair & Makeup

- Prop Sourcing & Making

- Design

- Captioning

- Producing

- Filmmaking

- Disability Awareness

- Anti-Racism

- Q&As and discussions with RADA teachers, students, graduates and technicians

- Application and Interview support for our Technical Theatre & Stage Management course

What will I be doing?

In the Spring term you will be introduced to a range of technical and creative roles and consider ways in which productions can be made accessible.

In the Summer term you will working collaboratively with the Youth Company: Acting to create a production in RADA’s Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre.

Throughout the course, any Youth Company members interested in applying for RADA’s Technical Theatre & Stage Management Foundation degree course will receive application and interview support.