What’s On

Session 1 – £5 per participant
Characters and Caricatures with Shazz Andrew

18th May 2025 – 11am – 3pm

Hendra Hall, Main hall, Truro

Performance Opportunity
Penlee Open Air Theatre – 10th June

In this spring skills’ workshop, open to current and new members, you’ll explore the Characters & Caricatures of playwright Nick Darke with actor and director Shazz Andrew.

Using sections from some of Nick’s most comedic and iconic plays, Shazz will work with the group to come up with short pieces of performance which the group can share by the end of the session.

This skills session has the potential to lead to a performance opportunity in in Another Darke Night, a celebration event of Nick Darke’s life happening at Penlee Open Air Theatre on the 10th of June.

If you would like to perform on the 10th, then you will need to be able to commit to this initial skills session and the other rehearsal dates – Sun 25th May, Sun 1st June and Sun 8th June and to the show date – 10th of June. Rehearsal times on these Sundays are 10.30am – 12.30pm.

Session 2 – £5 per participant
Street Theatre and Improv with Hotchpotch Performance

June 2025 – 11am – 3pm

Hendra Hall, main hall, Truro

We’re excited to be able to offer current members and anyone aged 12 to 22 years the chance to take part in a workshop with iconic local performance company, Hotchpotch Performance.

Hotchpotch are an outdoor arts’ company based in Cornwall, who blend circus, street theatre and visual arts to create spectacular yet intimate works for all ages. You have probably seen them at an event somewhere in the county, on stilts, as a walkabout troupe on the high street, or maybe you’ve seen one of their living statues in a town centre or festival?

In this workshop there will be a big focus on improv group games, and learning some important interactive, walkabout theatre skills, techniques and titbits.

Improv and street theatre are completely different styles of performance to shows, so this is a great workshop for anyone wanting to extend their performance skills in to another area.

CYTC Festival Show – £20 per participant
(Only open to current CYTC members)

1st May – 13th July – Rehearsal and performance

Hendra Hall, main hall, Truro

Performance Opportunity
Tropical Pressure Festival (with possible extra performance dates at Boardmasters and Connecting on the Court in Newquay)

This year we have an extra performance opportunity for our current CYTC members.

We have been asked by Tropical Pressure Festival to bring a short festival show to them, to be performed on the 12th and 13th of July as part of this year’s festival.

This will be an opportunity for a small group of current members to have a unique and valuable experience of creating a piece of festival theatre, which will be a comic, more interactive piece of performance for families.

Writer and Director Ellen Moule will be working with this small group, alongside technician Dave Brown to create a piece fit for a festival audience.

This will be a completely different type of theatre than we’ve offered our current members before and a chance to perform in the outdoor, informal setting of a festival, so will be developing a whole new set of performance skills in anyone involved.

We can only take a small group with us, so if you are a current member and are interested in joining us this summer for a completely different performance experience then please email Ellen at info@cornwallyouththeatre.co.uk to find out more and to register your interest.