We are excited to be relaunching our fantastic Youth Theatre in September of 2021!
(restrictions permitting)
We hope to be welcoming back our members pre-lockdown as well as a whole new group of students to our Centre. The first Centre meeting will be on Saturday 18th September from 1:30pm to 4:30pm.
There will be no charge for your first term of activities.
Subscription for membership of the Centre for one term (where there are three terms in the year) is £80 for the full 3 hours, but we are offering every student a fully subsidised first term, so there is nothing to stop you getting involved!
What you can do at Youth Theatre
Autumn 2021
The drama team are excited to get back to a full afternoon of creating drama. The first half term will be full of games that encourage participation and team working. We will be improving our communication skills and creating characters with a range of dedicated skills workshops.
We will also be launching a script writing competition looking for new writing for our new scriptwriting festival, “From Page to Stage” that will take place in December. The winning scripts will be performed by our Youth Theatre and Young Actors Company.
We are planning to run our sessions to nurture all that creativity that has been resting for the last few months. We are also planning on having lots of fun, making friends and bringing the NMPAT building alive again!
Spring 2022
Our Spring and Summer terms will see students rehearsing for a performance at The Castle Theatre in Wellingborough in June 2022.
Our aims and activities
Our aim
NMPAT Youth Theatre aims to provide high quality performing arts opportunities for young people aged 9 to 18. Young peoples’ social, emotional and educational development is at the heart of what we do. We aim to inspire and nurture our students allowing them to excel.
We aim to develop articulate, confident, well rounded individuals with a wealth of experience to take into their futures, by offering students the opportunity to further advance their skills and to experience training in all aspects of theatre craft, including:
- Acting: Scripted plays from Greek Theatre up to the present day.
- Devised Drama
- Musical Theatre: Vocal techniques and creative movement
- Technical Stagecraft: Sound, lighting, production, direction, set design and make up
- Physical Theatre
- Playwriting
Skills workshops
We offer Skills Workshops from professional practitioners. Recent workshops have included:
- Frantic Assembly Theatre – Physical Theatre
- Circus skills
- Sound and lighting
Productions
Productions are an important and regular feature of Youth Theatre activities. We aim to stage one main production a year with other smaller projects when appropriate.
How to register
When you register at http://bit.ly/NMPATCentres, Nikki Taylor, Center Head, will be in touch to confirm some details and make sure you have all the information you need.
For more on our new Young Playwrights Competition please click here.
You can contact Nikki at any time at: youththeatre@nmpat.co.uk
Alternatively you can contact the NMPAT Office if you would like further information.
How to find us
Where do we meet?
Under normal circumstances we meet at:
NMPAT
125 Kettering Road
Northampton
Northants
NN1 4AZ
When do we meet?
Saturday afternoons during term time: 1.30pm to 4.30pm.
Term dates
In the event of unavoidable closures, information will be shared on our Facebook feed.
Policies
You can find our child protection policy, code of conduct, and photographic policy on our policies page.
Playwriting competition
NMPAT are launching a brand new playwriting competition for young people. Open to anyone, in two age categories (age 9-13 years and age 14-18 years), entrants will write and submit a short play with up to four characters.
To help you prepare your entry, why not come along to our summer workshop, From Page to Stage, where expert staff from the NMPAT Drama team will support you in your writing.
From Page to Stage
A summer writing workshop will take place at NMPAT, Northampton, on Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th August. It will run from 10am-4pm and you should bring a packed lunch. Please click here to register for the summer workshop.
The cost for the workshop is £40. We will request payment once your place has been confirmed.
Following the workshop, the deadline for submitting your play is Sunday 31st October.
Three external judges will review the submissions and five from each category will be selected for a rehearsed reading by NMPAT Youth Theatre and Young Actors Company, as part of a new playwriting festival in December.
The writer of the overall winning play will be awarded a £30 Waterstones voucher.
"All children should have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument"