The Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre is a Liverpool-based stage and drama company for young people in Merseyside.
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Located at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, the Youth Theatre is open to teenagers from all over Merseyside. It provides weekly sessions in a wide variety of skills, covering everything from storytelling to stage combat. It gives members the opportunity to act, direct, dance, design, sing, improvise, and work on a range of scripts from Shakespeare to brand-new plays.
Each Autumn the entire youth theatre present full-scale productions for the Everyman stage. These have included Julius Caesar, in October 2007, and Monkey!, as part of the theatres' Capital of Culture Year programme in 2008.
The group was closely involved in the development of Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s Proper Clever, his first script for the stage which was produced at the Playhouse in October 2008. As of May 2009, senior members of the Youth Theatre will present their first studio production, Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale, at the Everyman Theatre.
Originally set up in the mid-1970s, Liverpool's Everyman Youth Theatre quickly became one of Britain's most successful youth theatres, with over 300 members at its peak.[1] It ran for nearly twenty years, until the Everyman Theatre went into liquidation and closed its doors in 1993.[1]
After having nurtured and encouraged so much young talent on Merseyside, there was great disappointment at the loss of the facility for young people. By 1998 a devoted group of supporters founded the New Everyman Youth Theatre.[1] Launched with funds from the Everyman Supporters Club — including many high-profile members — the group continued with the help of grants, donations and revenue from ticket sales.
On 25 November 2006 the Youth Theatre returned to its original home to become the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre.[1]
Many well-known actors, musicians, writers and theatre practitioners began and developed their interest in the performing arts at the Youth Theatre. Previous members include:
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