Young Company Summer Term 2025: 25-30 Company
Summer Term25-30 Company Summer Term — 10 weeks
Term starts: Mon 28 Apr
Half Term (no sessions): w/c Mon 26 May
YC Monday last sessions: Mon 14 Jul
Session time: Monday, 8—10pm
Location: Bristol Old Vic
Fee: £110 per term
Summer Term 2025
This term we will be focusing on devising movement for theatre and performance. We'll learn how to approach generating movement in a way that suits our own bodies and Maisie will be giving you a toolbox to create complicated movement work simply and effectively. We will: work 'outside in' to create characters and relationships on stage using viewpoints and Meisner techniques; we'll do fun foundational skills such as contact improvisation and lifts; we'll think dramaturgically about how movement and images on stage are read when layered with text and story; and we'll devise and collaborate to create small pieces in pairs, small groups and sometimes on our own.
Summer Term practitioner: Maisie Newman
Maisie Newman is a working class director, choreographer and award winning writer from Easton, Bristol. She was the Bryan Forbes bursary director at National Youth Theatre for 2022/2023 where she directed and adapted Bakkhai for the REP company. Her recent directing credits include: Middletown and The Unmanageable Sisters (Guildford School of Acting); Vixen (Travelling Light Theatre); Opal Fruits (Edinburgh for Bristol Old Vic) and Antigone (Bristol Old Vic Young Company). She was the choreographer for Scottish Opera's Candide which was nominated for a UK theatre award. She is currently on commission with English Touring Opera writing the libretto for a new opera for SEND audiences for August 2025. She has been the assistant and associate for directors including Monique Touko, Josie Daxter, Miranda Cromwell and Lisa Gregan. She was one of Headlong's Origins directors in 2019-2020 workshopping Rechnitz (Elfriede Jelinek). Currently she is in R&D for a new performance with Cameron Mackintosh winning composer Ben Osborn and live artist Elana Binysh which is supported by Bristol Old Vic Ferment and funded Arts Council England.
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 be led by a practitioner with a focus on a specific area of theatre, such as text, verbatim theatre, movement, and many more.
