Youth theatre past productions - Page 3

The Princess and the Goblin

March 2009
Directed by Meryl Keeble
A challenging production to stage given the six week rehearsal schedule, but everyone pulled it off. The children wrote all the songs for the show and played a big part in the costumes, props, advertising and promotion of this production.

Fantastic Mr Fox

April/May 2010
Directed by Meryl Keeble
One of Roald Dahl's most famous stories, Fantastic Mr Fox follows the story of how one fox outwits three farmers and feeds all the animals who live underground. The Company used physical theatre techniques and multi-role acting to tell this wonderful story.

Othello Reworked

October 2010
Directed by Meryl Keeble

The Company decided that we would create a piece of improvised theatre around the emotions of love, hate, jealousy and fear. Due to the time constraints of this production for it’s initial performance, we decided that the cast needed a basic plot to be able to develop the themes around.

We felt that Shakespeare’s Othello contained all of the above and decided to present the classic tale as a modern adaptation. Through a series of improvisations based around key points of the original story, the young actors have created a short, exciting play that highlights the dramatic role of those four emotions. Using song, dynamic action and modern dialogue, the production is set in a school and brings Shakespeare’s story into a modern context and accessible to all ages.

Animal Farm

April/May 2011
Directed by Meryl Keeble
An adaptation of the George Orwell classic about a group of farm animals who overthrow their owner and try to run the farm themselves, led by Napoleon and Snowball and the rest of the pigs. This was a very demanding production, but the Company put on a really good show.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

October 2011
Directed by Meryl Keeble

Everyone knows what happened when Goldilocks stumbled upon the house of the three bears. But the Company decided to put a twist on the story as they did with the Three Little Pigs previously. This was performed in a brand new space recently built onto Archbishop Sancroft High School.

James and the Giant Peach

June 2014

Directed by Mike Davison

When James Henry Trotter loses both his parents in a tragic accident (involving a rhino) he is sent to live with his Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. Which isn’t good news, as they’re both horrible. But when James meets a mysterious old man, things start to change – and soon he is in the middle of an amazing adventure with some very unusual companions…

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents the Musical

October 2013
Directed by Mike Davison
In this unique telling of The Pied Piper, Terry Pratchett's humour shines through in the story of a cat called Maurice, his band of Educated Rodents, and a boy who can play the pipe. They go around conning towns out of their money for getting rid of rats, but then they come to a town where not all is as it seems...

Babe the Sheep-pig

March 2013
Directed by Mike Davison

When Farmer Hogget wins young piglet Babe at the village fair, Mrs Hogget has only one plan in mind - to fatten him up for the pot. But adopted and trained by old sheepdog Fly, Babe sets his sights on a very different future, as the world's first Sheep-Pig!

Winnie the Pooh

March 2012

Directed by Mike Davison

A full length play performed by a group of 10-14 year olds, Winnie the Pooh was a great challenge - and a successful one at that. Winnie the Pooh, a Bear of Great and Distinguished Brain, lives in the Hundred Acre Wood with his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit and Christopher Robin. Together they had many adventures and some of the best ones were included in this stage adaptation by Glyn Robbins. The cast had a tremendous time performing, coming up with many ideas in rehearsals and learning their lines in brilliant time. The show was performed in the new Sancroft Centre at Archbishop Sancroft High School.

Bugsy Malone

January/February 2015
Directed by Mike Davison

New York, 1929. A war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan, who is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded 'splurge gun'. As the custard pies start to fly, can all-round nice guy Bugsy Malone stay one step ahead of trouble, avoid the clutches of the seductive songstress Tallulah, and win the heart of Blousey Brown?

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