The JCG Youth Theatre produces plays as well as musicals.
Our most recent production was the wonderful ‘Barbed Wire and Teddy Bears’ by Karen Forbes, based on Therese Tabb’s book Occupation Memories.
Prior to this we performed the very creative puppet play The Terrible Infants by Oliver Lansley. Breadth and diversity is the aim when selecting plays and so we have staged a wide range of pieces, including Beasts and Beauties by Carol Ann Duffy and Tim Supple, an adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol by Neil Bartlett, Daisy Pulls it Off by Denise Deegan, Grimm Tales by Carol Ann Duffy and Tim Supple, The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht and Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
We have also entered national festivals and competitions e.g. in 2015 we performed The Accordion Shop by Cush Jumbo for National Theatre Connections and staged the play at the Bristol Old Vic as well as our home venue.
We have also entered the Shakespeare Schools’ Festival with versions of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
