YOUNG COMPANY AUTUMN TERM 2025: 25-30 COMPANY
Autumn Term25-30 Company Autumn Term — 10 weeks
Term starts: Mon 22 Sep
Half Term (no sessions) Mon 27 Oct
Last session: Mon 1 Dec
Session time: Monday, 8—10pm Location: Bristol Old Vic Fee: £110 per term
Information about 25-30 sessions
These sessions are for anyone who hasn’t had the chance to explore theatre in education, or who has been involved in youth theatre and wants to continue exploring theatre with their peers.
25-30 Company is your space to meet with other like-minded individuals and create theatre, guided by a professional theatre practitioner. Each term will respond to a different theme, developed by the Young Company Trainee Director.
Young Company Autumn term
Back To Basics: The Body
This term we return to the most important tool we have in theatre: our bodies. Movement, voice, gesture, character, ensemble work, physical storytelling, rhythm, dance, mime, physical comedy… the list goes on. Together, we’ll discover how bringing awareness to our bodies and all they do can transform us as performers and pave the way for powerful, imaginative theatre-making.
Consider standalone skills workshops, exploring texts and ideas over a few sessions, and experimenting with skills coming together in new and surprising ways. There is also the invitation to explore the body thematically (i.e. identity, space, power, the grotesque, the non-human etc.).
As ever, sessions should encourage experimentation, questioning, open creativity, developing new and refining skills, and ensemble work.
Autumn Term practitioner: Georgia Casimir
Georgia graduated from the University of Bristol in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre and English. Since then, she has participated in the Bristol Old Vic’s Made in Bristol scheme in its 13th year, where she developed skills in devising and collaborating, culminating in the creation of the theatre company THIS/THAT. She has since had roles as Assistant Director for the BOV Young Company production of The Roaring Girl; she has co-written and directed the original play ‘Chickpeas’, and currently holds positions as Assistant and Associate Director respectively for Trowbridge Town Hall community show, and Bristol Old Vic’s Little Red and Other Winter Tales. She makes work with a strong emphasis on story and community, exploring themes of queerness, magic and comedy.
Fees and Bursaries
We have a limited number of bursary grants that are available in cases of genuine hardship for anyone who will struggle to pay Young Company fees. Bursaries should be applied for when booking opens on Wednesday 28 May at 10am.
Applying for a bursary means we automatically reserve you a space for Young Company, so you do not need to make a paid booking in addition to your bursary application, and you will have the option to buy your reserved place if your bursary application is not successful.
Please visit the Fees & Bursaries page to download a bursary application form.
Bursary applications for Autumn term will be accepted between Wednesday 28th May at 10am and Wednesday 27th August. When a Young Company session has reached capacity we will not accept bursary places for that session.
Please send the application form in as soon as possible, to avoid disappointment.
