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Oliver!This British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, was first performed in London's West End in 1960. This is a big show, as anyone familiar with Dicken's Oliver Twist would expect and the Group pulled out all the stops and involved every member in some way. Performances took place in the Curzon Centre from 21-23 February 2008. 
Gareth Webb as Fagin and Christian Northwood as Oliver Social EveningThe Group's first Social Evening of this Season was held at the Curzon Centre on 17 November, 2007. The evening's entertainment consisted of many scenes drawn from the Group's past productions. Annual General Meeting The AGM was held at the Curzon Centre on 9th September 2007 in order to give awards and elect a new Executive Committee. This year, the AGM was chaired by Tim Hill. The Awards and committe posts now appear in the Archive. Hamlet
New Member DayOn Sunday 2nd September the group held a New Member Day. If you are thinking of joining the group and would like to come along to the next one (or even sooner) please contact us and you will be added to our waiting list and invited along as soon as full details are released. Wyrd Sisters At 7.30 pm on July 13th and 14th 2007 at the Curzon Centre, Young Theatre presented Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters (adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs). Here are the photographs taken at the first dress rehearsal, over 200 (warts an' all) in three sizes. Summer Social Evening
On Saturday 23rd June 2007 the group presented their festival plays The Mysteries: The Passion by Mark Oldknow and Round the World with Class 6 by Nick Warburton, followed by the Annual Young Theatre Awards for 2005/2006. This was held at the Beacon Theatre in Holtspur. The Social Evening is the group's major fund-raising event of the year. It is also an opportunity for friends and family to see the two award winning Festival entries. Festival Entries Kenton Theatre, Henley: Performances began at 7.30 pm on Friday May 11th 2007. YT's entries appeared second and third and won:
Maidenhead: Round the World With Class 6 won the Youth Team Under 16 (although the only entrant in the class, the adjudicator had no hesitation in awarding the cup). The Mysteries: The Passion cast won the Adjudicator’s Award for their teamwork, versatility and performance. Cameron Gower Poole and Alex Firth were also nominated for the lighting and sound.
E-PromptThe group has launched its members’ email newsletter E-Prompt. If you are a member and have not seen it, please speak to a member of the Executive Committee on a Sunday. (Hotmail users in particular may find E-Prompt—and other useful messages—mistakenly identified as spam, please check all your email boxes.) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Deadby Tom StoppardWas performed on the 13th and 14th April, 2007 at the Curzon Centre Canterbury TalesThis family comedy, by Phil Woods and Michael Bogdanov, was performed on 4th, 5th, and 6th January 2007 at 7.30pm. The Lower Futtock annual Chaucer storytelling competition and fète on the newly turfed village green in the Curzon Centre. The Audience had to bring theirr own picnic and seats. A Beer tent and a coffee stall was on hand plus other stalls and all the fun of the fète. Murder MysteryIn the near future there will be a murder in the Curzon Centre brought to you by the Tight Fit Theatre company to raise funds for YT. You will have to identify the victim, the murderer and the motive if you want to be sure of winning the Grand Prize. All while eating a scrummy meal. For more details, members please see your copy of Prompt. A G MThe 2006 Annual General Meeting was held at the Curzon Centre on Sunday 10th September. It began at 2.30 p.m. Nearly every current member attended and the outcome is reflected in the Archive, see The Executive Committee and The Awards. I sent out a copy of ePrompt when the update was completed. You can subscribe. All you have to do is ask. Open Day for New MembersOn 3rd September 2006 at 2.30 pm, the Curzon Centre's doors were flung open to welcome 15 prospective members to an open day. Comedy TonightThree one-act plays were performed on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th July. Last Tango in Little Grimley by David Tristram; The Do It Yourself Frankenstein Outfit by David Campton; and Power Games written by our very own James Ivens. FestivalsCindy writes ... We acquitted ourselves well in all three festivals, with Mike Ivens picking up Best Young Actor in all three, Charlie Maling Best Young Actress in one and Jess Dutton Best Young Actress in another. We also won Under 16's and Under 21's at Maidenhead and the Under 16's at Chalfont. Other awards included nominations for best presentation and stage presentation with certificates of merit in both these at Chalfont and Maidenhead. At Maidenhead we came fifth out of eleven entries which is no mean feat and the total score was 77 with the winners achieving 83; it was a close run thing. Chalfont and Maidenhead results. The Wind in the WillowsOur most recent production was Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, adapted for the stage by Alan Bennett and with additional lyrics and music by Jeremy Sams. Directed by Mark Oldknow this production was be performed at the Curzon Centre on the 6, 7 & 8 April Visitors' BookThe previous incarnation of this ended up being filled with spammers' rubbish. I have made some changes and hope we can avoid them now. Please leave us a message. Perhaps you know the names of everone in this photo:  Those Good Old DaysOn Saturday 7th January we presented our annual Social Evening, where we performed three one-act plays, live music and some sketches. The inclusive two-course supper was supplemented by a licenced bar and the evening's excellent entertainment, including something by our passed Patron, Ronnie Barker. Details in our Archive Playing with Fire
The play—in which David Edgar returns to the subject matter he first explored some 30 years ago with Destiny, “the often febrile relationship between race and politics”—has as its theme “the strained relations between a modernising government and what it sees as the Old Labour bastions of the North.” The excellent production had a strong cast, which included Emma Fielding, David Troughton, Trevor Cooper, Oliver Ford Davies and Paul Bhattacharjee, an ex-member of The Young Theatre at Harrow. The latter being both unexpected and great to see. Ronnie BarkerOur very special tribute to a passed patron of The Young Theatre Annual General MeetingAt 3pm on 25th September 2005 in the Curzon Centre Town Recognises YTOn 8/4/05 Beaconsfield Town Council presented YT with the town's special youth award. DAVID EDGARThe Young Theatre are very honoured to announce that DAVID EDGAR - the author of YT's award winning one act play Ball Boys and a distinguished contemporary writer - has agreed to become a patron of the group. YT WIN BRITISH FINALYT's Ball Boys won the British Final.
The Young Theatre (at Beaconsfield) is a theatre group for young people, run by young people. We meet every Sunday from 2pm to 6pm at the Curzon Centre. See all about us and our past shows in the Need to contact us or want to subscribe to our newsletter? 
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On 19-21 September 2007 a production of Hamlet was performed at the Beacon Theatre in order to help raise more funds for YT. (Box Office 01494 677236) Members of YT were involved, but the director, Mark Oldknow, has had to cast his net a little wider than usual so you may notice that the show is produced under the name of "Shared Intent Theatre" though it was originally intended to be a "Not So Young Theatre" production. 
On Saturday, 22nd October, an 18-strong Young Theatre contingent (led by Group Chairman Martin Haswell) went to see the final matinee performance of Group Patron David Edgar’s new play Playing with Fire in the Olivier at the National Theatre.
Peter Sharman, Phil Macken and James Cooke brandishing the Barn Theatre Cup from the Eastern Area Final Top |
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