Jan - March 2010

Play in a Week – Our New World!
This term’s Play in a Week project was hosted kindly by Caistor Yarborough School and took place over just 4 days! The cast worked together to create a brand new show based around the idea of having to leave Earth in search for a new home. The young actors learnt about a variety of techniques from dance and drama to monologue, still image, puppetry, art and much much more.
They created the whole thing from scratch and did a wonderful job of taking the audience on their journey into a world of spaceships, robots and alien characters! The project took place in February half term, 2010.

‘Young Talent 2010’Our brand new Talent Comp returned for it’s second year, back by popular demand!
Singers, Dancers, Actors and Musicians took to the stage to impress our judges and the audience!
Sonia Chauhan & Charlotte Adams scooped the trophy for the Audience Choice award while Jessica Allan was awarded the special recognition award after her solo song. The Judges Trophy for first place went to young singer Amy Garnett who performed ‘I’m Telling You’.
We are proud of our youth members for taking part, keeping in the spirit of the competition and focusing on enjoying the chance to perform!
Look out for the chance to enter in next years comp!

‘Bits n Pieces’To celebrate the end of the term, our Cleethorpes drama group hosted an information & social evening at their new venue – Trin Youth Centre, Cleethorpes!
The evening welcomed all FYT members as well as parents, family, friends etc to find out about FYT and what was coming up in the run up to summer! As well as grabbing a drink at the bar, playing pool or air hockey and competing on the Nintendo Wii, the audience were also treated to some short performances, Open Mic style by any youth member who wanted to get up and perform any bits n pieces!
The evening was a great success and also served as a bit of a fundraiser for the youth theatre. No ticket prices were charged, just donations requested during the event.

Dance Hub Showcase
Just a quick shout out to Alison Traill and the dance group at FYT who worked so hard throughout January to put a piece of contemporary dance theatre together for the Youth Dance Hub Showcase at the Grimsby Auditorium on 3rd March. The group were praised in the local paper – ‘No performers were more impressive than the Fusion Youth Theatre Members … with some dramatic poses and spectacular turns.’ Congratulations to all involved!