Archives · 2014/17
Young Theatre Promoters
Set up by the network in 2014 as part of the Partnership Investment Scheme, the Young Theatre Promoters were a group of performing arts students from Robertsbridge Community College, working with Applause Rural Touring and Robertsbridge Arts Partnership to bring professional shows to the college for their peers.
All performances were selected, booked and promoted by the YTPs, supported by staff and partners: with performers brought in for workshops alongside the shows to encourage more students to see live theatre.
Past shows
Selected, booked and promoted by students
- NOV 2017 Not About Heroes: Flying Bridge Theatre Company & Seabright Productions Stephen Macdonald’s play which won a Fringe First award about the friendship between WWI poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon
- APR 2017 Gloriator: Spitz & Co Wonderfully inventive, physical and very silly: bravery, honour and costumes made of cardboard. Critics Choice Award, Exeter Ignite
- OCT 2015 Strictly Balti A humorous look at what it means to be British, from someone who had to learn the hard way
- MAY 2015 Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra Texas swing, gypsy jazz and country blues
- MAR 2015 Those Magnificent Men: The Foundary Group & The Ornate Johnsons The daredevil dash of aviators Alcock and Brown across the Atlantic in a converted Vickers biplane
“A really great show brought to us from the Applause Rural Touring scheme… the audience thoroughly enjoyed the performance, they laughed all the way through and left great feedback for us.”