AKT Youth
Stretching mind, body, voice & imaginationYouth 13-18 yearsVoice, Movement & Acting Technique classes designed to harness & develop young talent in an encouraging, supportive & creative environment. Youth Members can also enrol for the prestigious Trinity Guildhall Speech & Drama exams (tuition & exam fees available on request). ACT is a registered Trinity Guildhall Examination Centre. Enrolling now ...All classes taught by experienced industry professionals from ACT's Vocational Actor Training courses. |
AKT Youth News
Bassett appears as part of The National Theatre New Connections 2011 - the UK's most exciting festival of Youth Theatre. NT Connections 2011 
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AKT Youth Theatre Bassett
by James Graham Directed by Janette Eddisford & Daniel Finlay Citizenship class at Wootton Bassett School and the supply teacher has gone a bit nuts, doing a runner and locking the pupils in. That's bad enough, but tensions are higher today than normal, a day when only yards from their confinement a repatriation of fallen British soldiers is happening along the high street - as it has over a hundred times before through this quiet Wiltshire town. And this one is more personal than most ... Dean needs the toilet, Aimee needs a coffee, Amid needs to pray, and Leo ... well, Leo really, really wants to be at the repat, and is determined to escape. As factions form and secrets are revealed, maybe he's not the only one who'll want to get away.
Bassett is a pacy, funny and exhausting look at young people who have inherited a world at war; who, as they grow older, are starting to ask questions about these conflicts, their country, and themselves. Venue: The Sallis Benney Theatre, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY To book tickets on line please go to brightonticketshop.com or call the Dome Box Office on 01273 709709. |
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Fugee
by Abi Morgan The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, BN3 1AS Directed by Elaine Heath
Fugee: Slang for refugee of political oppression or natural disaster. Kojo is 14 but no one believes him; he's just one of the unaccompanied minors arriving in London, abandoned on the streets of the UK. Ara's from Baghdad and still hears the bombs at night. Cheung can do back flips and is from village in China that is more than a thousand years old. Orphans in London, they are the only family they have now. Together they tell Kojo's story: a story of lost childhood, tall trees and a murder in motion; a murder by a child that everyone says is a man. AKT Youth Theatre are the oldest of our AKT - Act Kids Theatre groups which meet during term time on a Saturday morning. AKT Youth won 1st Place in 'Group Acted Scene' at this year's Springboard Brighton and Hove Youth Performing Arts Festival with an extract from Fugee. For more details please visit our AKT pages. Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival DATES: 2nd & 3rd May 2010 |
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Well done AKT YouthAKT Youth Theatre have won 1st Place in 'Group Acted Scene' at this year's Springboard Brighton and Hove Youth Performing Arts Festival held at the Old Market in Hove. The group won with an extract from Fugee by Abi Morgan which they are performing in its entirety back at the Old Market on May 2nd & 3rd as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2010. AKT Youth member Amy collected the Festival Shield and winners' certificate from head adjudicator Phillip Thrupp who praised the group on their ensemble skills and how well they had told a powerful and political story through their imaginative use of the stage. For more information and to book tickets for AKT Youth's production of Fugee please go to our What's On page or visit the Brighton Fringe Festival website. Fugee by Abi Morgan was originally written for the 2008 National Theatre New Connections. Kojo is 14 but no one believes him; he's just one of the unaccompanied minors arriving in London, abandoned on the streets of the UK. Ara's from Baghdad and still hears the bombs at night. Cheung can do back flips and is from village in China that is more than a thousand years old. Orphans in London, they are the only family they have now. Together they tell Kojo's story: a story of lost childhood, tall trees and a murder in motion; a murder by a child that everyone says is a man. Abi Morgan's award-winning plays include Skinned, Sleeping Around, Tiny Dynamite and Tender and Splendour, which was recently broadcast on Radio 3. For TV: My Fragile Heart, Murder, Tsunami - The Aftermath and Sex Traffic, a multi-award-winning drama for Channel 4. Film includes Brick Lane, an adaptation of Monica Ali's bestselling book. White Girl, a 90-minute film for BBC2 will be broadcast in early 2009.
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