For ages 16-21, Young Pleasance is dedicated to offering dynamic, excellent and professional theatre opportunities for young people through workshops and large-scale productions delivered by our ambitious creative team.
Having produced annual original productions for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1995 the company have established an excellent reputation at the Fringe with audiences and critics alike.
Based at Pleasance London for rehearsals, the company then performs in Edinburgh at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
All places are subsidised by Pleasance! A participation fee of £995 applies and there are means-tested bursaries available.
We are forming a new Community Company for women, non-binary and trans people over 18 in the Kirkcaldy area who will perform in our next production.
Fancy a bit of performing, acting, singing, dancing? Join our free weekly workshops and be part of an exciting new show with professional directors, designers, actors and creatives.
Stellar Quines Community Company is a welcoming and fun environment to come together, meet new people, learn performance skills and be creative. No experience necessary, you just need to be able to commit to rehearsals and performances.
Audition Workshop
Community Company Rehearsals
Performances
Submissions are now open for The Bill Cashmore Award: One Act Play Prize!
The Bill Cashmore Award is presented by the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and is a Young Lyric new playwriting award for young writers aged 18-30. Young Lyric is funded to support and provide opportunities for children and young people aged up to 30 years through programmes, workshops and activities.
The Bill Cashmore Award prize offers a paid opportunity for two new one-act plays to be professionally produced at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. The prize is for writers aged 18 – 30 to submit new scripts for selection by an industry-leading panel of the Lyric’s Artistic Associates. The two winning plays will run as a double bill and will be performed by the Lyric’s SPRINGBOARD trainee actors in Autumn 2025.
PARAMETERS OF THE AWARD
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 23 December 2024 at 12pm
See FAQs for more details on our criteria.
During a term the group will explore practitioners and different forms of theatre in greater detail to learn the skills needed to build successful performances themselves, whether that is devised or scripted.
Groups will explore their own interests in theatre and develop an understanding of what they want to create and what they want to explore more of.
This course is a great lead on to the Lyceum’s 18-25's ensemble programme or into further education in drama/acting.
Weekly Sessions and Term Dates:
