Tom Paine

by Paul Foster
directed by Mark Turnbull

 

The senior Youth Theatre are re-imagining and reworking this classic piece by using the original text and creating a 21st century version of the revolutionary writer's journey through several of the revolutionary movements and events of the past.

For the uninitiated, this is not a historically accurate or necessarily illuminating play about Tom Paine (the real person) - or the (mythical) revolutionary who was a central figure in English civil unrest, the American War of Independence or the French Revolution, but is rather an impressionistic avant-garde piece of theatre which builds a series of montages which speak about the nature of revolution with the character of Tom Paine as the centrepiece of spin.

It is still a challenging and exciting theatrical tour de force which stretches the actors' relationship with the audience - being moving, funny, controversial and frustrating as it pushes the interpretative boundaries of any theatrical troupe - exactly the kind of theatre that young people need to test their own theatrical boundaries!  This is an adult play with strong themes - an exciting and challenging theatrical event!

 

Friday 1st to Saturday 2nd July 2011

Other past productions

1. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
2. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens, adapted by Jo Clifford
3. Peter Pan - JM Barrie (John Caird and Trevor Nunn)
4. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
5. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
6. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
7. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
   adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
8. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
9. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
10. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
11. This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
12. King John - William Shakespeare
13. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
14. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
15. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
16. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
17. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
18. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
19. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
20. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
21. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
22. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
23. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
24. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
25. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
26. Iron - Rona Munro
27. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
28. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
29. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
30. Moonlight and Magnolias - Ron Hutchinson
31. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
32. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
33. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
34. Harvey - Mary Chase
35. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
36. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
37. Henry V - William Shakespeare
38. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
39. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
40. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
41. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
42. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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