The Plough Youth Theatre provides exciting opportunities for Drama and Theatre Arts for 2-18 year olds in rural North Devon. Our provision includes the main theatre workshops for all ages, creative dance sessions, and a creative writing group, as well as holiday workshops and the PYT Summer Show! Please find all links and contact below.
We believe that the performing arts encourage confidence, communication, team work, and individuality. Our workshops have a keen focus on self expression and creativity, celebrating participation, and building strong performance and theatre skills.
Each group will work on age appropriate performances to family and friends, the public, and the older groups may participate in the National Theatre Connections programme, which can offer opportunities to perform in Plymouth and London. Click on the images below to read more and book online.
- Our creative journey begins with Theatre Tots, where we bring music, dance, drama and storytelling to our youngest participants, aged 2-4 years old, in a fun and play based session!
- Then we move up into our Infant youth theatre for 5-7 year olds where we build on imagination, creativity and performance skills, producing sharing performances for family and friends.
- Next stop, the Junior youth theatre workshops for 8-11 year olds, where children work on a range of performance and theatre skills, culminating in public performances and a summer production.
- For 11-14 years, we have our “middlies” youth theatre group, which will be working on contemporary performance art, incorporating musical theatre, drama, storytelling, physical theatre and more to create exciting public performances.
- Finally, young people move into our Senior Youth Theatre company at around 14 years old, where they will explore experimental theatre, comedic acting, pantomime, new writing, classic theatre, and more. Participants build a strong and diverse range of performance skills in acting, drama and theatre arts.
- Creative Dance: These popular classes give young people the opportunity to express themselves, tell stories and learn performance skills through a variety of dance styles and genres. Relaxed and fun, with exciting performance opportunities. Creative Dance is a mixed ability session for 8-18 year olds focused on choreography and devising dance theatre.
- Creative Movement and Mindfulness is a combination of creative dance, movement, yoga and mindful and expressive choreography for 4-12 year olds. Branching off of the popular Creative Dance Theatre classes, this will give young people the opportunity to express themselves in a safe and fun environment, find some calm and creativity, and develop their dance and movement skills.
- Writing for Performance: This exciting new term of creative writing workshops will be will give young people tools and skill development across a variety of creative and performative writing, such as poetry, song writing, writing for film, developing narrative, writing comedy, improvisation to script, writing characters, and spoken word performance. Through the term, young people will have the opportunity to work on their own project, with experienced practitioners on hand to offer critiques, feedback and constructive development ideas. It is a very exciting project for anyone interested in performance and creative writing, whether their interest is in drama, dance, music or theatre making as a whole!
There's an opportunity for everyone at The Plough Youth Theatre!
Saturdays: We have five workshop groups that run on Saturdays during term time here at The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington:
- Infants - 5-7 Years (12.30pm - 2pm) £60 / £48 Supporters (per term) or £35 / £28 Supporters (per half term) - with Sara
- Juniors - 8-11/12 Years (1.00pm - 3.00pm) £75 / £60 Supporters (per term) - with Katherine
- Middlies - 11-14/15 Years (11am - 1pm) £75 / £60 Supporters (per term) - with Katherine
- Senior Theatre Company - 14-18 Years (10.15am - 12.15pm) £75 / £60 Supporters (per term) - with Sara
- Creative Dance - 8 years plus - 8-16 Years (3.00pm-5.00pm) £75 / £60 Supporters (per term) - with Katherine
Term dates are:
11th Jan - 29th March - NO session on 15th Feb
26th April - 19th July - NO session on 31st May
During the Week:
- Theatre Tots - 2-4 Years (Tuesdays 9.30am-10.15am) £40 / £30 Supporters (per term) - with Sara
- Creative Movers - 4-12 Years (Thursdays 4-5pm) £40 / £30 Supporters (per term) - with Katherine
- Writing for Performance (8-18 Years) (Thursdays 5-6pm) £40 / £30 Supporters (per term) - with Katherine
Get in touch to join us today - or to book a FREE Taster Session for any of our groups.
Email: Katherine@theploughartscentre.org.uk | Call: 01805 624624 or WhatsApp: 07715605506
Don't forget about our dynamic youth council, Plough the Future!! Click on the image for more info!
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