Tuesday, 30 Jun
17:30
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5:30pm, 6:30pm Tue
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Venue Studio, York Theatre Royal
Playhouse provides school children with a once in a lifetime opportunity to perform on our 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.
This year, six York primary schools will take over YTR’s Studio theatre 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.
A crowded courtroom. A noisy gallery. Boisterous press who have already decided the verdict before the trial’s begun. A gasping jury. The case all the more shocking because the group of defendants are all children. The charges the gang of youths face: Breaking and Entering. Theft. Murder.
The evidence is not in dispute: empty porridge bowls and broken chairs; a cut-down beanstalk and a smashed golden egg; an open nursery window with a shadow left behind; a dead witch in an oven. But how clear-cut is guilt?
Little Criminals is a courtroom drama told in rhyme – featuring children’s favourite fairy tale characters in the dock. As the trial unfolds, key questions emerge – how much were these children responsible for their actions and how much were they the victims of circumstance?
Tues 30 Jun
5.30pm Badger Hill School
6.30pm Archbishop of York Junior School
Wed 01 July
5.30pm Clifton Green School