Current Opportunities
We have lots of opportunities to support Young People looking to get into theatre.
Take a look below!
Frantic Ignition
This Autumn, renowned theatre company Frantic Assembly will travel across the UK to deliver FREE Taster and Trial workshops in association with 13 regional partner venues – we are proud to say that we will be hosting them here at Theatre Royal Plymouth.
These high energy movement-based workshops are aimed at young people aged 16-24 who face barriers to accessing the arts, in the hopes to show them the arts can absolutely be for them.
Seeking out underrepresented talent in unexpected places.
Plymouth Youth Dance Company
Plymouth Youth Dance Company is a partnership project, created and managed by Barbican Theatre Plymouth, Far Flung CIC, Plymouth Dance CIC and Theatre Royal Plymouth.
Building on the history of the various iterations of Plymouth Youth Dance Company over the past 40 years, the partners have come together to provide the best experience and opportunities possible for members of the city’s youth dance company.
The focus of Plymouth Youth Dance Company is predominantly Contemporary Dance.
You must be between the ages of 14–19, with a minimum 3 years dance experience (school, private dance school, youth group etc.)
Alongside weekly sessions, members will get amazing opportunities to perform, attend professional shows, and benefit from career-enhancing experiences
“Best thing you will ever do you won’t look back”
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NT Connections
Each year the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow.
Every year, 300 youth theatre companies and over 6,000 young people from every corner of the UK are producing a Connections play.
Playhouse
Playhouse provides school children with a once in a lifetime opportunity to perform on Theatre Royal Plymouth’s stage! Delivered across the UK, Playhouse is a unique participatory theatre project that connects schools with professional theatres, script writers and theatre makers, so they may be inspired and empowered to experience the benefits of professional theatre making.
Primary schools take over TRP’s Drum Theatre for a week each year which will reimagine the traditional school play with performances which will excite, delight and inspire its audiences. In bringing their characters to life, children are able to have heartfelt, authentic conversations about big issues in the world today and learn to express themselves freely as they experience the joy of theatre.
Take Flight with New Adventures
In 2024 New Adventures visited with the pioneering production of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake.
To coincide with this 30th anniversary UK tour, we partnered on the Swan Lake Take Flight project, led by Plymouth’s Regional Dance Ambassador, Sapphire Sumpter. Sapphire supported relationships between venues and local community groups and bring new audiences into the theatre.
The activities that made up this project were inspired by Swan Lake and engaged young people in dance, focussing on how connecting, creating, and moving together can improve wellbeing.
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