Youth Music Theatre: UK has announced its summer season: eight new
musicals in seven venues across the UK:
Aberdeen
23rd July – 5th August (performances on 3rd & 4th August)
The Silver Bough
Writer: Iain Finlay Macleod; composer: Gerard McBurney; based on the
books by F Marian McNeil
Part of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival
Belfast
1st – 13th August (performances on 12th & 13th)
The Chosen Room
Writer: Marie Jones; composer: Mark Dougherty
Stranmillis College Drama Theatre, Belfast
Plymouth
28th July - 10th August (performances on 8th & 9th)
Peter Pan
Adapted by Nick Stimson from the novel by J.M. Barrie; composer: Jimmy
Jewel
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
Edinburgh Fringe
2nd – 16th August (performances 13th - 16th)
Missing Mel
Writer: Kath Burlinson; composer and musical director: Conor Mitchell
George Square Theatre, Edinburgh
Leeds
4th – 16th August (performances on 15th & 16th)
Dead Heat
Writer: Steve Keyworth; composer: Alexander Bermange
Venue TBA
Bracknell
26th July - 8th August (performances 6th & 7th)
Great Expectations
Writer: Gerry Flanagan; lyricist & composer: Annemarie Lewis-Thomas;
based on the novel by Charles Dickens
Bracknell South Hill Park Arts Centre
Guildford
4th – 24rd August (performances 20th - 23rd)
Mort
Writer: Jenifer Toksvig, based on the novel by Terry Pratchett; composer:
Dominic Haslam
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
Plymouth
11th – 23rd August (performances on 22nd & 23rd)
Endangered
International artists Peta Lily and Jonathan Cooper join YMT: UK to
create a new piece of work on the lives of Engangered species. Jonathan
has worked extensively for the David Glass Ensemble both in Europe
and South East Asia while Peta works across Europe and Asia as a director,
clown and facilitator.
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
