The Marbleous Route Home, Intro to Theatre and Something to Declare | YV Taking Part Summer update

It’s been an incredibly busy few months for the Young Vic’s outreach team, Taking Part. We’ve shared the playful, non-verbal production The Marbleous Route Home with SEND schools and young people over two weeks of performances, our YV Young Associates created an installation for Refugee Week, Something to Declare and Intro to Theatre, our week long programme of free workshops for young people interested in a career in theatre was attended by hundreds who enjoyed the talents and advice of some incredibly exciting artists.

The Marbleous Route Home

Our playful, non-verbal production, The Marbleous Route Home was our new Young Vic Taking Part production created as an original response to Fun Home aimed at children and young people who attend special schools.

Conceived by Natasha Nixon and Kirsty Harris, and devised by the company, Natasha Nixon’s production received some beautiful and excited reactions from audiences throughout our two weeks of performances set in our open and relaxed performance environment.

Intro to Theatre

Our week long programme of workshops for Young People got even bigger in May 2018. We hosted hundreds of Young People across 26 workshops held by exciting artists including directors Roy Alexander Weise, performers Yolanda Mercy, Serafina Bey, London Hughes and Michael Balogun, writer Luke Barnes and photographer Helen Murray as well as our very own Kwame Kwei-Armah and Nadia Latif.

If you’re interested in finding out more about the next Intro to Theatre then send an email to youngpeople@youngvic.org and they’ll let you know how you can sign up.

Something to Declare

The Young Vic Young Associates are local young people from Southwark who work at the YV, each joining a different department for 9 months of the year. Towards the end of their time at the YV they are given the opportunity to come up with some work on a theme of their choosing. This year’s team of Lanikai, Sandra and Patrick chose to create some work in response to the refugee crisis during Refugee Week.

Our Young Vic Young Associates

Their installation, Something To Declare was developed through a series of interviews and workshops with LGBTQI+ refugees. Visitors were invited to listen to different narratives on headphones while inside the installation room, composed from interviews with workshop participants about their experiences in their home countries and in the UK. The second room offered a chill out space with music, films and food, and later featured moving performances from poets Belinda Zhawi and Tamara McFarlane. It was a great evening and we had a fantastic response from our audiences – big thanks to everyone who contributed to the project and to all of those who came.

All photos © Leon Puplett

 

In response to The Jungle, The Brothers Size and The Inheritance | YV Taking Part

It’s been a busy start to 2018 for our incredible education and outreach team, Young Vic Taking Part. Working in response to some stunning productions in the YV’s Main House including The Jungle, The Brothers Size and The Inheritance, they’ve been working with a wide range of people from Lambeth, Southwark and beyond.

The Tide

The Tide. Photo © Leon Puplett

The Tide. Photo © Leon Puplett

The Tide. Photo © Leon Puplett

The Tide. Photo © Leon Puplett

The Tide. Photo © Leon Puplett

The Tide. Photo © Leon Puplett

The Tide. Photo © Leon Puplett

The Tide. Photo © Leon Puplett

The Tide was our schools response to The Jungle and was met with some amazing feedback. Written by Eno Mfon, directed by Eva Sampson and performed by local teenagers, The Tide explored what is home, family and migration and was performed in the YV’s Maria space with a stunning design incorporating trampolines by Cecile Tremolieres.

A moving, challenging and profoundly beautiful piece of theatre by the incredible company of The Tide at @youngvictheatre... An unmissable interpretation and new provocations on some of the great questions we face today https://t.co/zjZYeIFFEn

— Good Chance (@GoodChanceCal) February 15, 2018

The Brothers Size Parallel Production

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Taking Part have also been working with HMP Wandsworth. At the beginning of February Jonathan Ajayi, Sope Dirisu, Manuel Pinheiro and Anthony Welsh performed Bijan Sheibani’s production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size.  Forty men currently at the prison watched the sharing and were invited to take part in our project inspired by the theme’s explored in McCraney’s work. The script they develop with writer Luke Barnes will form a later production with young offenders, directed by Justin Audibert.

Neighbours Known. Neighbours Unknown.

In collaboration with the acclaimed The Choir with No Name who run choirs for homeless and marginalised people, on a singing project that brings together their members with people from our local boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. Members of the YV Taking Part’s Neighbourhood Theatre have been working on Neighbours Known. Neighbours Unknown. a singing project that celebrates singing, community and togetherness. They’ll be performing on Sat 17 March at The Workshop in Vauxhall.

Within Reach

Taking Part have also had the first few rehearsals of Within Reach, a movement based response to Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance, led by Grace Gibson. Working with people who have HIV or have been directly affected by the illness, the work will be shared in early May.

Arts in Schools Campaign

We are glad to be a part of the #LTCFC Open Discussion around arts education in schools here’s our @kwamekweiarmah on the panel 🙌🏼 pic.twitter.com/7L13t7F77I

— YoungVic Taking Part (@YVTakingPart) February 5, 2018

Taking Part has also been working hard on arts in schools and worked on the first London Theatre Consortium symposium on a future curriculum for drama education which YV AD Kwame Kwei-Armah spoke at. Find out more about the event and people’s responses on our video.

Audition for The Suit Parallel Production

Are you aged 15-22?
Would you like to perform in a professionally produced show at the Young Vic?

BE A PART OF IT!
The Suit Parallel Production

Auditions: Saturday 24th March

Rehearsal Dates: Monday 2nd April- Thurs 7th June

Performances: Fri 8th & Saturday 9th June

The production will give you the opportunity to:

• Work with a professional director and design team.
• Have a taste of how professional actors work.
• Perform in a production at the Young Vic to an invited audience.

What we are looking for:

• Creative young people who want to expand their understanding and knowledge of the theatre.
• Fun, committed and enthusiastic young people who enjoy performing

To apply or find out more, please  email sharonkanolik@youngvic.org

Please note that the project is only open to young people who either live or study in Lambeth or Southwark!

We are looking for young people age 15—22 to audition for The Suit, a contemporary play with music, directed by professional theatre director Suba Das.

No acting experience is necessary and the auditions will be informal drama workshops that you don’t need to prepare for!

A Parallel Production at the Young Vic