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National Youth Theatre presents The Host

The UK’s leading youth arts organisation, The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) today announces a spring 2018 programme as the 2017 season draws to a close. Nessah Muthy’s award-nominated The Host, which follows the life of a Syrian refugee in the UK, will return in February following its acclaimed run at The Yard Theatre. Directed by Zoe Lafferty, the production will run at the iconic Central London venue St James’s Church Piccadilly in conjunction with a major art installation reflecting experiences of refugees. For the first time, NYT will have a three-week engagement at Southwark Playhouse with Olivier Award nominee and NYT Alumni James Fritz’s (Parliament Square, Four Minutes Twelve Seconds) The Fall alongside Dennis Kelly’s DNA. Auditions and interviews will also be held from January to March in over 40 locations nationwide for ages 14 – 25 for NYT’s 2018 acting and backstage summer courses.

Originally commissioned by NYT in response to Brexit and the European refugee crisis, The Host tells the story of a Syrian refugee and the impact of his arrival on a local family, exploring race, relations and family ties. The production will be running alongside Suspended, a major installation by artist Arabella Dorman from 14 December – 8 February, featuring salvaged refugee clothing suspended above the nave of the church, reflecting the rootless and volatile experience of life as a refugee. A 360 video featuring real accounts of refugees living in the UK will accompany the production, exploring the responses and opinions of refugees based on their real life experiences. The Host runs 1-3 February 2018.

National Youth Theatre presents The Fall

For the first time NYT will also have a three-week run at Southwark Playhouse with plays from two celebrated writers. Having received its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre as part of NYT’s 60th Anniversary celebrations, James Fritz’s topical play The Fall takes a candid look at young people’s relationships with older people and confronts the frightening prospect of ageing in a country undergoing a crisis of care. Running alongside The Fall will be DNA from Olivier Award winner Dennis Kelly (Matilda, Pinocchio). The Fall, directed by Matt Harrison, runs 28 April – 19 May with a Press Night on Thursday 3 May. DNA runs 1 – 18 May, directed by Sean Hollands.

Paul Roseby, NYT Artistic Director and CEO, said: “Thanks to our best audience ever this year, it’s a joy to be able to bring back these challenging pieces of new work in 2018. These plays tackle vitally important subjects, from the tension between the refugee crisis and Brexit in Nessah Muthy’s Writers’ Guild Award-nominated The Host, to the spiralling costs of social care for the elderly and lack of affordable housing for the young in James Fritz’s The Fall. Equally important is the fact that we’ll be auditioning at over 40 venues around the UK at the same time, with more than 10 new venues enabling us to reach those who haven’t been able to access our work before.”

National Youth Theatre presents DNA

NYT is holding auditions and interviews nationwide in the search for talented new members aged 14 – 25 for its 2018 intake. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of alumni such as Helen Mirren, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Craig and Matt Smith and take part in a range of acting and backstage courses.

It is also announced today that NYT has a new Development Board with members including Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Annette Lynton Mason, Diana Hiddleston, Helen Northup, Freddie Lewis, Tilly McAuliffe and Chair Peter Clayton.

National Youth Theatre are still to announce their full 2018 season.

LISTINGS The Host By Nessah Muthy Directed by Zoe Lafferty St James’s Church Piccadilly, W1J 9LL Thursday 1 – Saturday 3 February Evening performances: 7.30pm Tickets will go on sale on Friday 15 December http://ift.tt/2nJFfOc Box Office: 020 7452 3000

The Fall By James Fritz Directed by Matt Harrison Southwark Playhouse Saturday 28 April – Saturday 19 May http://ift.tt/NsSQwM Box Office: 020 7407 0234

DNA By Dennis Kelly Directed by Sean Hollands Southwark Playhouse Tuesday 1 May – Friday 18 May http://ift.tt/NsSQwM

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underdogreviews · 7 years

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THE HOST, YARD THEATRE - THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE,★★★★★

London. Bleak. The rent is due. And last months. Yasmin is working class. Only two things concern her: money and family. Living on a diet of cheesestrings and chocolate, firecracker Yasmin (Rebekah Murrell) works two jobs just to stay above the poverty line. Her three sisters, hysterical Nat (Jesse Bateson), hard-nut Pearl (Isabella Verrico) and naïve Hayley (Taylor Keegan) are at a loss. In debt, grieving for their mother and desperate to find a way to remain in their homes, the sisters depend on Yasmin to be the brains to the solution. She balances the world on her shoulders. The poor lending from the poor. Beneath the rock-solid exterior of Yasmin hides a lonely young woman, silently disappointed with the hand life dealt her. After chasing off a violent gang from a beaten up Rabea (Zakaria Douglas-Zerouali), Yasmin discovers the man to be a doctor - and a Syrian Refugee. Fighting her urge to repel anything different, religious, foreign - she tentatively offers him a sofa, and begins to care for the kindred spirit. With a mind unknowingly desperate to be opened, Yasmin shares tales of loss and heartache with Rabea and finds in him her first true friend. Directed by Zoe Lafferty and written by Nessah Muthy, the piece is snappy, raw and bursting with life. With a delightfully female heavy ensemble, the words pierce and overlap with a pace that effortlessly chops and changes. With a character as fierce and complicated as Yasmin, Rebekah Murrell is intensely likable. She provides a masterclass in being present as the character and lives the truth of each moment. Like a firework she brings a vivacious energy to the piece and propels it forward. A lump appears in the throat when Yasmin gives her struggling sister her last loaf of bread, a moment of such heart-breaking reality and tenderness. The set is simple and resembles a cheap London flat complete with tiny, tattered, almost-empty fringe. The actors are comfortable in their world, and move through the space with ease, aiding the naturalism of the play. The actors sometimes step off the stage, rather than through the ‘hallway’, breaking the convention and therefore illusion of the flat. Once again, the National Youth Theatre proves its outstanding track record for finding the brightest young actors; the youthful ensemble are focused and professional, cleaning up spillages on stage during difficult and busy scenes whilst remaining completely in character. This thought-provoking piece of drama poses many questions: what is it to be ‘totally English’? Does family come first, above all else? How much of the past can be erased, in order to live a better life? How long until this brilliant piece of theatre is on a west end stage? - Faye Butler

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damienmolonyforum · 3 years

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UPDATED NEWS! DAMIEN APPEARING IN "GUT-WRENCHING HORROR" FILM 'CRADLED' in Channel 4's 'On The Edge'

UPDATED NEWS! DAMIEN APPEARING IN “GUT-WRENCHING HORROR” FILM ‘CRADLED’ in Channel 4’s ‘On The Edge’

Cradled BTS Photo, Credit Ellora Torchia Channel 4 have announced Damien’s recently wrapped project Cradled as part of their BAFTA nominated film series ‘On The Edge’. According to an official press release, Cradled is “a gut-wrenching horror about a young mother experiencing a breakdown.” The drama is one of an anthology of three films set to air in ‘On The Edge’, returning for a third series…

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damienmolonyforum · 2 years

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Damien Molony on preparing for his role in CRADLED - a horror exploring motherhood and postpartum psychosis

Damien Molony on preparing for his role in CRADLED - a horror on motherhood and postpartum psychosis

© Channel 4 Damien has shared more about his role in upcoming CRADLED, and the issues raised by the film. Airing on Sunday 7 November as part of Channel 4’s On The Edge series 3, CRADLED is described as a horror exploring the overwhelming nature of modern motherhood, with Ellora Torchia as Maia, a woman who unravels after giving birth and her perfect life descends into chaos. Damien plays husband…

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londontheatre · 7 years

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Isabella Verrico, Rebekah Murrell, Jesse Bateson, Zakaria Douglas-Zerouali in NYT’s The Host at the Yard Theatre CREDIT Helen Maybanks

Starting in the middle of a domestic argument over money, Nessah Muthy’s The Host never takes a backward step, presenting a complex web of divided loyalties brought to the surface by the arrival of asylum seeker, Rabea, into the life of central-character Yasmin – a fiercely independent but scarred young woman, struggling to support herself and her three equally hard-up sisters.

Rebekah Murrell’s nuanced and animated portrayal of Yasmin is the emotional heart of the play, and it is Yasmin’s volatility that keeps the tension elevated throughout. However, through the surprisingly playful and tender relationship that grows between her and softly-spoken Zakaria Douglas-Zerouali, as Syrian refugee Rabea, Yasmin begins to question her own race and sense of belonging, compounded further by her family’s reaction to her house guest.

Perhaps the most successful aspect of the play is that it more keenly interrogates Yasmin’s identity and otherness than that of Rabea, offering a pressing and ongoing challenge to his comment that: “the past is the past is the past.”

Yasmin’s sisters, visible for the majority of the play as an ever-present reminder of the emotional stakes, are very well cast indeed, with Isabella Verrico’s uncompromising yet sensitive portrayal of oldest sister Pearl’s underlying fear of people’s difference, a crucial part of the production’s success.

The Host was written in response to the Brexit vote and European refugee crisis and is being performed as part of the National Youth Theatre’s summer season, and Cécile Trémolières’ exposed and raised set lends a rawness to the up-to-date issues being explored, aided by authentic and well-chosen costumes from Ugne Dainiute.

At times, whilst very well-acted throughout, the play is a little predictable, with the dialogue slowing in the middle somewhat. However, this is more than compensated for by the extremely powerful and emotionally fraught ending, which, quite correctly, doesn’t seek to resolve any of the questions the play poses.

The Host, then, is a gripping and urgent piece of theatre, which resonates far beyond the mere 90 minutes it occupies.

Review by Ben Miller

NYT has commissioned its most recent play, The Host by Nessah Muthy (recently listed by BBC as a one-to-watch), directed by Zoe Lafferty (Queens of Syria). In response to the European refugee crisis, The Host is set on a South East London council estate and tells the story of Rabea, a Syrian refugee as he forges new relationships with the family who have taken him in all the while battling the memories of his journey to England.

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londontheatre · 7 years

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FIVE PLAYS TO BE STAGED THIS SUMMER IN AN ‘EAST END SEASON’ AT THE ARCOLA THEATRE, THE YARD THEATRE AND WILTON’S MUSIC HALL

AT THE YARD THEATRE FROM 8-26 AUGUST: MOHSIN HAMID’S MAN BOOKER SHORTLISTED THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE JESSICA SWALE’S BLUE STOCKINGS ABOUT THE PIONEERS OF FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE UK, DIRECTED BY ALICE KNIGHT THE HOST, A NEW PLAY FOLLOWING A SYRIAN REFUGEE IN SOUTH EAST LONDON, BY NESSAH MUTHY, DIRECTED BY ZOE LAFFERTY

IN A DIGITAL RESPONSE TO THE HOST, A 360 VIDEO FEATURING REAL ACCOUNTS OF REFUGEE STORIES WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE YARD

A RESTAGING OF THE DEFINITIVE PLAY ON FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM, ZIGGER ZAGGER, FOR ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY AT WILTON’S MUSIC HALL FROM 6 – 9 SEPTEMBER

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) this month launches their first ever East End season which will run throughout the summer, with 97 of Britain’s best young actors from all over the UK performing in five productions at three venues across East London. NYT’s social inclusion course, ‘Playing Up’ will run at the Arcola Theatre from 20 – 22 July, with Three, a new play by Sophie Ellerby. Following the sell-out success of their season of new writing at the Finborough Theatre last year, the organisation will present a politically charged programme of three plays at The Yard Theatre from 8 – 26 August, exploring the themes of cultural prejudice, women’s suffrage and the European refugee crisis. A 360 video will also be available at The Yard Theatre, which will feature real accounts of refugees in the UK and their stories. The East End season will culminate in a celebration of 50 years of NYT commissioning new writing for young people, with a restaging of their first commission Zigger Zagger at Wilton’s Music Hall from 6 – 9 September.

[See image gallery at http://ift.tt/1FpwFUw] For the first time three plays will be staged at The Yard Theatre, which has recently been announced as a new Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation (NPO), with two new productions, including one new play, plus the return of one of the successes from the Finborough season.

The stage adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel and Hollywood blockbuster film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist will return from 8 – 12 August, having received its world premiere in NYT’s season of new writing at the Finborough Theatre in 2016. The production looks at the ironies of prejudice and representation in a post 9/11 New York. It follows Pakistani native Changez’s disenchantment with the West and his journey back to Lahore. The production was adapted for stage by Stephanie Street (Sisters and founder member of The Act for Change Project) and will be directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah (Moth and Nightwatchman).

Following its world premiere at the Globe Theatre in 2013, NYT present the first play by Olivier Award-winning playwright Jessica Swale (Nell Gwynn) for which she was nominated for the Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright Award. Blue Stockings follows the battle at Girton College, Cambridge in 1896 to earn women the right to graduate. Challenging gendered views about women’s moral judgement and suitability to academia, the play has heavy parallels with the fight for female suffrage. The brand new production will run from 15 – 19 August and will be directed by Alice Knight, recipient of the 2014 Bryan Forbes Director Bursary Fund.

NYT will also stage its most recent commission, The Host by Nessah Muthy (recently listed by BBC as a one-to-watch), directed by Zoe Lafferty (Queens of Syria), which will run from 22 – 26 August. Commissioned in response to Brexit and the European refugee crisis, The Host is set on a South East London council estate and tells the story of Rabea, a Syrian refugee as he forges new relationships with the family who have taken him in, all the while battling the memories of his journey to England.

In a digital response to The Host, a 360 video will be available at The Yard Theatre featuring real accounts of refugees living in the UK. Furthering the themes raised in the play, the film will explore the responses and opinions of refugees based on their real life experiences, discovering their point of view around the society and country which they now find themselves in. The video has been specially commissioned for NYT and is being created by NYT alumni Ben Carlin and Sean Hollands (2016 Bryan Forbes Director), founders of Epiphany VR.

In the year that NYT marks 50 years of commissioning new work for young people, the East End season will culminate in a performance of their first commission in 1967, Peter Terson’s Zigger Zagger. The widely studied play is considered one of the definitive plays on football hooliganism and will receive a special anniversary production at Wilton’s Music Hall from 6 – 9 September. The production is set to have a cast of 50 under the direction of Juliet Knight (White Boy). An irreverent tale of tribalism, the play follows the story of Harry Philton, a passionate fan of the local football team, who struggles between the life of sex, violence and drink which football offers and, a stable future. Former alumni who performed in Zigger Zigger as NYT members include Tim McInnerny, Alex Jennings, Robert Glenister, Paula Wilcox and Clive Mantle.

In a new commission by Sophie Ellerby (HighTide First Commissions Writer and NYT REP Company 2013), participants of social inclusion course ‘Playing Up’ will star in Three at the Arcola Theatre from 20 – 22 July. Ellerby’s urban and domestic drama, directed by NYT Associate Director Anna Niland (Pigeon), follows three sisters who fight to keep track of reality as their world is turned upside down following their father’s release from prison. ‘Playing Up’, now in its eighth year, is a course for 19 – 24 year olds not in full time education, employment or training, creating productions and commissioning new work. It has an 85% success rate of moving young people into higher education, further training or employment, with recent alumni including Seraphina Beh, who after joining NYT’s 2016 REP Company was spotted for a role in EastEnders, which she recently starred in as Madison Drake, Gavi Singh Chera who’s currently appearing in Headlong Theatre’s Pygmalion and Ria Zmitrowicz recently seen in BBC drama Three Girls.

Following the East End season, autumn will see the REP company return to the Ambassadors Theatre for a fifth year from 26 September to 8 December with a brand new female-led adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Jekyll and Hyde exploring women’s roles and rights in Victorian society. The production has been adapted by Evan Placey who wrote their 2015 hit Consensual and is directed by Roy Alexander Weise (JMK 2016 Winner), whose recent directing credits include the Young Vic’s acclaimed production The Mountaintop and The Ugly One at the Park Theatre. The second REP show, which marks an exciting new collaboration, will see NYT present Frantic Assembly’s award-winning modern-day Othello, adapted by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Frantic Assembly. Under the direction of Frantic’s Associate Director Simon Pittman, their electrifying take on Shakespeare’s thriller is set in 21st century Britain and is celebrated for its physical and collaborative theatre, bringing the sex, violence and jealousy of the tragedy into the modern day. Also as part of the 2017 REP season Thomas Bailey, this year’s recipient of the Bryan Forbes Bursary will direct Mrs Dalloway in a new, free adaptation by Hal Coase. Tickets are now available for this fast-paced, dynamic staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic tale.

Inspired by the traditional repertory theatre model, the NYT REP was set up by Artistic Director Paul Roseby in 2012 to provide a much needed free alternative to expensive formal training. The course is a unique free talent development initiative allowing the best young talent to work for nine months with leading institutions culminating in three months of performances in the West End.

LISTINGS PLAYING UP Three Arcola Theatre, E8 3DL 20 – 22 July

EAST END SEASON AT THE YARD The Yard Theatre, E9 5EN 8 – 26 August

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Press Performance: 9 August 8 – 12 August Evening performances: 7.30pm 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 August Matinee performances: 3pm 12 August

Blue Stockings Press Performance: 16 August 15 – 19 August Evening performances: 7.30pm 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 August Matinee performances 3pm 19 August

The Host Press Performance: 23 August 22 – 26 August Evening performances 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 August Matinee performances 3pm 26 August

ZIGGER ZAGGER Wilton’s Music Hall, E1 8JB Press performance: 7 September 6-9 September Evening performances 7.30pm 6,7,8,9 September Matinee performances 2.30pm 7,8,9 September

REP SEASON Ambassadors Theatre, WC2H 9ND 26 September – 8 December Press Performances: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 October

Jekyll and Hyde In a new version by Evan Placey Based on the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson Directed by Roy Alexander Weise Evening performances (7:30pm): 27 Sep, 2,4,11,17,31 Oct, 8,14,22,28 Nov, 6 Dec Matinee performances (2:00pm): 2,4,11,17,27,31 Oct, 3,8,14,17, 22, 28 Nov, 1,6 Dec

National Youth Theatre present Frantic Assembly’s Othello Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Simon Pittman Adapted by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Frantic Assembly Evening performances (7:30pm): 26 Sep, 3,10,24 Oct, 1,7,15,21,29 Nov, 5 Dec Matinee performances (2:00pm): 29 Sep, 3,6,10,13,20,24 Oct, 1,7,10,15,21,24,29 Nov, 5,8 Dec

Mrs Dalloway Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf Adapted for stage by Hal Coase Directed by Thomas Bailey Matinee performances only (2.30pm): 27 Sep and 4 Dec

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National Youth Theatre – Blue Stockings. Photo by Mark Cocksedge

Paul Roseby, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) has today announced its new season of work. 2017 marks 50 years of the organisation commissioning new work for young people and in celebration 50 play readings are taking place in weird and wonderful locations across the UK today. Some

Some notable writers who received early commissions from NYT, such as James Graham (This House, Finding Neverland), Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and The Cursed Child) and Zawe Ashton have plays being showcased.

The ‘50 Plays in a Day’, performed by NYT members and presented by young producers include, amongst others, James Graham’s political drama Tory Boyz at the Houses of Parliament with NYT alumni Ben Aldridge (Our Girl), Al Smith’s 1960s based Astronaut’s Wives Club at The National Space Centre Leicester, The Host, part of the NYT 2017 season, by Nessah Muthy in Calais at a Help Refugee Warehouse and The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy in Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire where Duffy is from. Other readings are taking place at Kenilworth Castle, Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library, Porthcawl Comprehensive School in Wales, Sheffield Lyceum Theatre, Wycombe Museum, Govanhill Baths in Glasgow, as well as a pub in Doncaster and a furniture shop in Finsbury Park. The full line-up can be found at http://ift.tt/2oDPsYW. Selected plays will also be broadcast on Facebook Live and can be accessed via the National Youth Theatre’s social media (Twitter/ Facebook) and website.

National Youth Theatre – The Host. Helen Maybanks

The initiative marks the launch of NYT’s 2017 season which will include their first ever ‘East End season’ at the Yard Theatre this summer after the sell-out success of their season of new writing at the Finborough last year. The East End Season will feature Olivier Award-winning Jessica Swale’s Blue Stockings, the premiere of The Host, a new play commission by NYT in response to 23 June 2016 and the European refugee crisis by Nessah Muthy and the return of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. In October they will take a 50 strong cast to Wilton’s Music Hall to bring back Peter Terson’s iconic play about football hooliganism, Zigger Zagger, 50 years after it was first commissioned by them. For autumn, following the success of four previous West End REP Seasons, the company will return to the Ambassadors Theatre for a fifth year in September with a brand new female-led adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde exploring women’s roles and rights in Victorian society, by Evan Placey who wrote their 2015 hit Consensual. The second REP show, which marks an exciting new collaboration, will see NYT present Frantic Assembly’s award-winning modern-day Othello under the direction of Frantic’s Associate Director Simon Pittman. NYT’s social inclusion course will also run at the Arcola Theatre with a new play by Sophie Ellerby.

National Youth Theatre – Jekyll and Hyde photo by Helen Maybanks

Paul Roseby said: “In 2017 we celebrate our growing diverse cohort by marking 50 years of new writing and I’m delighted to see our entrepreneurial young creatives simultaneously stage 50 plays in 50 locations across the UK today from catalogue of past commissions. I’m also a champion of the need for theatre to have greater parity with sport in education so it’s timely that we bring the passion for the beautiful game and passion for theatre together once more in re-staging Zigger Zagger. With seven further productions and work at over 100 sites nationwide, including a record 44 audition centres, NYT remains a vital and relevant contributor to our cultural landscape. We will continue to strive to do more to make sure that talented young people can access our opportunities regardless of where they’re from or their background.”

Barbara Broccoli said: “I’m delighted to be working with the National Youth Theatre in developing and celebrating the most talented and diverse young people that the UK has to offer.”

Scott Graham, Frantic Assembly’s Artistic Director said: “We are thrilled to be collaborating with this brilliant, young ensemble, engaging again with the fire, rage and beauty at the heart of this classic text. We can’t wait to see this young company take hold of it and make it their own.”

NYT and leading theatre publisher Nick Hern Books is delighted to announce the upcoming publication of National Youth Theatre Monologues: Speeches for Young People, a new collection of audition speeches drawn from material produced by world-leading youth arts organisation the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. The book, edited by National Youth Theatre Associate Artist Michael Bryher and published on 6 July, contains over 75 monologues all taken from plays performed by the NYT, by writers such as Zawe Ashton, Moira Buffini, Carol Ann Duffy, Brian Friel, James Graham, Dennis Kelly, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Gbolahan Obisesan, Evan Placey and Jack Thorne. The collection also offers tips on performing the speeches from current and former NYT members, plus advice on preparing for auditions.

LISTINGS PLAYING UP Three Arcola Theatre, E8 3DL 20 – 22 July 2017

National Youth Theatre present Frantic Assembly’s Othello. Photo by Helen Maybanks

Outside of the West End, NYT will stage Three by Sophie Ellerby (HighTide First Commissions Writer and NYT REP Company 2013), starring social inclusion participants at the Arcola Theatre as part of NYT’s ‘Playing Up’ course, which is now in its eighth year.

EAST END SEASON AT THE YARD The Yard Theatre, E9 5EN 8 – 26 August The Reluctant Fundamentalist Press Performance: 9 August 8 – 12 August Evening performances: 7.30pm 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 August Matinee performances: 3.00pm 12 August

Blue Stockings Press Performance: 16 August 2017 15 – 19 August Evening performances: 7.30pm 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 August Matinee performances 3.00pm 19 August

The Host 22 – 26 August 2017 By Nessah Muthy Directed by Zoe Lafferty

After the sell-out success of their new writing season at the Finborough Theatre in West London last year, a new venture for NYT this summer will be a season of work at East London’s the Yard Theatre. The programme includes two new productions (one new play) and the return of one of the successes from the Finborough season.

NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE PRESENT ZIGGER ZAGGER BY PETER TERSON Wilton’s Music Hall 6 – 9 September Press Night: 7 September 2017 By Peter Terson Directed by Juliet Knight

National Youth Theatre – Zigger Zagger. Photo by Helen Maybanks

The original football hooliganism play is back. Widely considered one of the definitive plays on football hooliganism, Zigger Zagger is to return 50 years after becoming the National Youth Theatre’s first ever new writing commission. Peter Terson’s widely studied play will receive a special anniversary production at Wilton’s Music Hall marking half a century since its world premiere. The production is set to have cast of 50 under the direction of Juliet Knight (White Boy).

An irreverent tale of tribalism, the play follows the story of Harry Philton, a passionate fan of the local football team, who struggles between the life of sex, violence and drink football offers and a stable future.

NYT’S 2017 WEST END REP SEASON Ambassadors Theatre 26 September – 8 December 2017 Press Nights: 10 and 11 October Jekyll and Hyde In a new version by Evan Placey Based on the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson Directed by Roy Alexander Weise

NYT present Frantic Assembly’s Othello By William Shakespeare Adapted by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett for Frantic Assembly Evening performances (7:30pm): 26 Sep, 3,10,24 Oct, 1,7,15,21,29 Nov, 5 Dec Matinee performances (2:00pm): 29 Sep, 3,6,10,13,20,24 Oct, 1,7,10,15,21,24,29 Nov, 5,8 Dec

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