Stage Combat & Silly Stories: A Play in a Week

11 April – 14 April 2022 | 10am – 2:30pm

8 – 13 years

Calling all budding actors, story-makers and chatterboxes!  The time has come to create your own piece of theatre, from scratch, with some of Somerset’s most exciting professional theatre makers.  Learn new skills, make new friends and have a blast doing it as you spend an action-packed four days working with Somerset Youth Theatre to make an original play that you will perform at Westlands Entertainment Venue at the end of the week. 

And there’s more…

During the week, you’ll learn how to stage a fight scene and perform in an epic battle here in Yeovil as professional actors teach you the skills and techniques of Stage Combat. 

Participants will receive a hot meal each day plus receive a ‘Make It At Home’ pizza kit!

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Silly Stories - Acting, Directing and Making a Play!

Join Actor, Director & Writer David Reakes & learn the skills to make and create your own play that is sure to make your audience laugh (and maybe even cry!). Taking local stories, participants will work together to make a play in 3 days, and rehearse and perform to the audience on the 4th day. Hone your skills in acting and/or directing - the choice is yours. No experience necessary, and a willingness to play a must!

Stage Combat:

Ever wondered how actors make those stage fights look so real? Work together with Richard Young and Selina Keedwell to learn the skills of stage combat. From hair grabs, to stage slaps and upper cuts - these workshops will teach you how to become a disciplined and convincing stage-fighting actor, understanding the techniques needed to grab the audience’s attention. Work together to build an epic stage battle in 3 days, and perform to the audience on the 4th day!

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 ​Parents/Guardians:

Your child will join us as we’ll be making and devising a play in 3 days with Somerset Youth Theatre’s team of professional actors and practitioners, with a rehearsal and performance on day 4, which parents/guardians will be invited to watch. All young people will have the chance to develop their own character, and speak lines as part of a chorus, as well as individual, if they choose. The young people will learn the skills and techniques of paired stage combat, and will have opportunities to progress to advanced level sword combat, with the use of pipe cladding, therefore ensuring the young person’s safety is paramount in the activity.

Somerset Youth Theatre’s work often involves humour and comedy and therefore will support the young people in making shows that lift the spirits and are rooted in their community. We will ensure all work is fully accessible, considering differentiation for any SEND young people.

Course Price: £89

Somerset County Council and Somerset Activity & Sports Partnership are pleased to offer a limited amount of free places on the Creative Performance Academy to children aged 8-13 in receipt of Free School Meals. To register and book a subsidised place, please click here to visit the Playwaze website.

Alternatively those in receipt of Free School Meals looking to book a subsidised place can call the SASP booking phone line on 01823 653992 (available Monday to Wednesday 10am – 2pm). 

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