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Dateline: 29th July, 2008
First RSC Youth Ensemble 22 young people, aged between 13 and 18, from across England will join together for two weeks this summer to form the first RSC Youth Ensemble.
The RSC’s Youth Ensemble is made up of young people from Secondary schools from nine of the regions of the country involved in The RSC’s Learning and Performance Network. Through their schools’ engagement with the Network, these young people have developed a passion for Shakespeare in performance.
The students will come and form an acting company in Stratford-upon-Avon, living and working in the RSC’s home town for two and half weeks in August. There are young people coming from Newcastle, Manchester, Oxford, Norfolk, London and several other regions in between. They start rehearsals on 7th August and their rehearsal period culminates in an hour long performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the stage of The Courtyard Theatre at 4pm on Friday 22nd August.
By living and rehearsing together, the group will experience the benefits and challenges of ensemble working. With professional director Aileen Gonzalves they will rehearse an edited version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to be performed in front of a public audience.
During their rehearsal period, they will meet members of the RSC acting company - including members of the current A Midsummer Night’s Dream company. They will also have workshop sessions with guest practitioners, including BBC TV and Radio presenter, Hardeep Singh Koli, who recently compered the RSC’s Regional Schools Celebration in The Courtyard Theatre.
Jacqui O’Hanlon, who was recently appointed as the RSC’s Director of Education (she has been the RSC’s Acting Director of Education for the past year) said, "We are delighted to be welcoming this very special group of young people to Stratford to form our very first youth ensemble. We feel they are an incredibly strong company who are going to become wonderful ambassadors for Shakespeare in their schools and regions. "Often the student we have chosen is not the student the teacher expected us to choose. The RSC's children's casting director came out to the different schools and regions and helped us in the very difficult selection process. However, what all of the students have in common is an ability to connect with Shakespeare’s language and stories and an excitement about working on his plays in performance. We’re equally excited about the prospect of working with them."
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