WELCOME TO GREENWICH & LEWISHAM YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE!
Greenwich & Lewisham Young People's Theatre aims to provide a wide range of opportunities for young people to learn through drama and theatre arts.To provide enjoyable, innovative and challenging drama and theatre experiences, within which young people feel free and able to participate.To enable young people to develop a critical awareness of themselves as social beings, and to question the world in which we live. To enable young people to develop confidence, self-esteem, the ability to work co-operatively, and to be empowered to take control over their own learning and lives. To enable young people to respect, share, understand, enjoy and celebrate the experience and culture of others.To enable young people to develop creatively, the languages and communication skills of theatre and drama. To enable the fullest access possible to all young people.To take positive action to ensure the participation of those whom society has made powerless. To develop and disseminate our methodology with youth community, education and theatre workers, locally, nationally and internationally
We run Youth Theatre Drama Workshops for young people aged 8-21Most classes take place on weekdays after school or evenings. We run Youth Theatre workshops in the boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham. The Greenwich workshops take place in the New Charlton Community Centre, Maryon Road, or The Forum @ Greenwich, Trafalgar Road. All Lewisham workshops take place in Goldsmiths Community Centre, Downham. Don’t worry you will not need to audition. Places are allocated on a first-come first-served basis. To book a place, please contact Claire Newby, the Education Officer on 020 8854 1316.Youth Theatre and Technical Workshops cost £25.00 per term (payable at the start of each term), or £60.00 per year. Concessions are available, for more details on this please contact Claire Newby our Education Officer on 020 8854 1316
VOICES is one of the most established arts and theatre programmes for young refugees and asylum seekers in South East London. Largely based in Greenwich and Lewisham, the project offers young people newly arrived in the UK the opportunity to take part in projects, both school based and also outside of educational contexts.
HeadstArt is a creative arts project for young people from abroad (including refugees and asylum seekers) aged 11-16 who haven’t got a place in school. You’ll have the chance to play games, be creative, express your own ideas and have fun. You’ll also be able to meet new people and practice your English in a safe and friendly environment.We run all sorts of different projects and workshops including drawing and painting, film-making, drama, dance, photography, music and lots more. You or your parent/carer can get an application form from us, or you can be referred by your social worker, case worker or school admissions department. If you’d like to know more about headstArt, please contact VOICES Project Leader, Emily Hunka on 020 8854 1316.
Our most recent Young People's Theatre production was Master Juba, a new play from the writer & installation artist Michael McMillan, based on the true story of William Henry Lane, the father of black British dance, whose legacy to the performing world is tap dance. In 1854 William Henry Lane, a witty, sharp, young, black man arrives in London from New York as a superstar. He is about to win a competition that will make him the ‘King of all Dancers’, the ‘Master of the Juba’. Lane was 17 years old when he was discovered by PT Barnum in New York. But when the ‘superstar’ came to London he had to ‘black up’ as a minstrel to be allowed to perform on the British stage. The play explores his battles to overcome racial stereotyping and the challenges he made to British social conventions. Master Juba offers outstanding entertainment with dance, music, theatre and digital animation. The show toured to venues in London and the East of England in autumn 2006.
We are currently developing another production called SK8 Angel (Skate Angel), by Michael Wicherek. We have recently spent a week developing the project at Horn Park Primary School. The show will be touring schools in London in the Autumn Term 2007. If you would like more information about this show, please contact Jeremy James, Artistic Director on 020 8854 1316.
If you would like more information on Greenwich and Lewisham Young People's Theatre please contact us on 020 8854 1316.