2011/12

MTA Presents…Youth Drama Festival Spring 2012
MTA’s Youth Theatre Company have joined forces with our Friday Drama Level 3 and Saturday School Level 3 in a host of grisly and gruesome, hilarious and hair-raising tales from the Brothers Grimm, to Roald Dahl and European fairy tales.

• MTA Youth Theatre Company presents selected scenes from Eight Tales of Beasts and Beauties by Carol Ann Duffy.

‘…some strange alchemy takes place in the dark and as a shiver runs down your spine and a bubble of laughter rises in your throat, you remember why theatre really matters and can be such a transforming experience.’

Join us for a host of grisly and gruesome, hilarious and hair-raising tales from European fairytales, including classic stories such as ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.
From: Beasts and Beauties, Eight Tales from Around Europe
by Carol Ann Duffy, dramatised by Tim Supple.
With kind permission of the playwrights’ agent, Knight Hall Agency Ltd.

• The Witches: Saturday School Level 3

Scenes from a theatrical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story in which a league of secret witches form a fiendish plan to get rid of all the children in England!

• ‘Wax Work’: Drama Level 3

Devised piece of physical theatre set in a wax workshop, where reality and representation mingle and merge and nothing can be thought as it seems…

2010/11

Daisy Pulls it Off-Sunday 10th April 2011, Brockley Jack Theatre

The comedy Daisy Pulls it Off by Denise Deegan is about heroine Dasiy Meredith who lands a scholarship place at the renowned Grangewood School for Young Ladies. Confronted with tribulations along the way, Daisy makes friends and follows an exciting hunt for lost treasure which reveals her true identity!

Show clips from 10th April performance at the Brockley Jack Theatre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfVDGaLTwe4 – link 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRxLWQh2FsI – link 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPcyucYZq98 – link 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS0rLd5BNs8 – link 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyeABIO6Kzk – link 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B035Xsrc27A – link 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQpAq10OzNU – link 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5vJnI99mxU – link 8

2009/10

YOUNG BROCKLEY PLAYERS present

Dates: 11th, 12th & 13th March 2010, 5.00pm start for 7 – 9.15pm

Where: Brockley Jack Theatre

12 members of the Montage Youth Theatre Company, aged 12 – 20 years, perform in scenes from a wide range of plays, challenging the perception and skill of the young people.

Laura Moss successfully fund-raised for this project produced by a youth committee and directed by drama tutor Evan Placey. The hour-long programme ran as follows:

Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade – Kate, (Matt)
Roaring Trade by Steve Thompson – Kai, Cherhys
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts – Miranda, Camilla, Zoe, (Alice)
A Single Act by Jane Bodie – Nora, Chloe

Interval

Yesterday an Incident Occured (from Shoot, Get Treasure, Repeat) by Mark Ravenhill  – Matt, Roxanne, Siana
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill – Katie, Keisha, Kate
The Shape of a Girl by Joan McLeod – Alice
The Ugly One by Marius van Mayenburg – Lily, Rose, Aziza

Funded by VCashpoint

2007/8

Teechers by John Godber

Directed by Hannah Tyrell-Pinder

Albany Theatre, February 2008

With a cast of 15 young people aged 12 – 17 years, this was the first full-length play produced by the Montage Youth Theatre Company.

Check out the blog with images and comments throughout the process from page to stage!  Here’s the link you need to copy & paste: http://montageyouththeatre.blogspot.com/

The play: ‘Teechers’ evokes life at a modern comprehensive school.  Mr Nixon, the new drama teacher arrives to find that life at the school will be a huge challenge. Cynical colleagues, obstructive caretakers and naughty students all combine in a blur of quick-witted and loveable characters. Can Nixon and his students manage to make it through to the end of term play with their sanity intact? In John Godber’s hilarious play, expect the unexpected.

Some audience comments:

“this is the first amateur play I’ve been to when I could hear the cast perfectly. It made such a difference”

“excellent performance, from young talented performers!”

“what a result! they were all so confident and a wonderful ensemble…”

Some post-show cast members’ thoughts…

‘Over the last year I really think that everybody has worked so hard to get this far and to do so well with ”Teechers”.

‘I can’t believe my mum turned up. She said she couldn’t come. I was kinnda pleased but glad I didn’t know otherwise I would have been sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo scared and nervous. ‘

TELEGRAPH HILL FESTIVAL
As part of the Youth Theatre programme, the students performed an extract at the Telegraph Hill Festival in March at Crossways Academy. It is important that these young people learn a range of skills so the course also included drama workshops, live and recorded digital art work and a video. Professional artists lead drama workshops specifically developing character, voice production, movement and devised writing around the play which the students benefited from enormously. The performance was watched by an audience including young people from local schools. A video documentary of the whole process was also made which included interviews from the students throughout as well as before and after the performance. A blog site was also created for the youth theatre company so that they can exchange ideas and write about their experiences.