Youth Theatre

Extant is currently running youth theatre groups for visually impaired young people aged 13-18 in the following London centres:

These sessions take place after school on weekdays during term time until next Easter 2009. We are also aiming to set up older youth groups for those aged 18-25 at a London college base in the near future.

If you are a young person who would like to join these sessions, or if you are a visually impaired schools' or college co-ordinator who would like to work with Extant to set up a new centre in Greater London in the near future (minimum group number 6) please contact Youth Theatre Project Manager Sue Rolfe at:

info@extant.org.uk

Comments from young participants:

"Its fun "A lot more creative than school drama"

"We get to choose what we want to do" "I love creating stuff"

A 5 minute video clip of highlights from our Youth Theatre presentations and interviews with young people tutors and teachers in Morpeth School, Bethnal Green and Lambeth Academy, Clapham common, July 2008.

Read about Rhys's experience:

I started doing drama in school and I found out that I enjoyed it very much so I took it as a GCSE. While doing drama at school I heard about a drama club for visually impaired kids called Extant, and I thought it would be something fun to do while I wasn’t at school.The drama club was held after school hours at another school not too far from mine.

Through Extant’s drama club I have learnt new ways of acting and ways to project my voice; I have also made lots of new friends. Drama club has bean a lot of fun and I intend to keep going.

While I was at drama club a film director heard about me and she asked me to star in a film she was directing. And of course I said yes! The film was being filmed over in Sicily. I was in Sicily for over a week filming and I found that filming for the first time was a wonderful experience, and it was amazing to see what happens behind the scenes on a film set. It was very different to what I expected a film set would be like. If I was ever allowed to do a film again I would, and I would owe all this to Extant drama club.

Youth Theatre main page

Content of our Youth Theatre work

Where we are working 2008/9

History of our Youth Theatre