Bath Theatre Academy is looking forward to staging four new productions across a three-week run at The Egg this month. The residency starts on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th May with a double bill featuring It Snows and The Wardrobe, as The Egg welcomes first-year Performing Arts students from BTA, its in-house training academy. The first two plays are presented by 29 first year Performing Arts students from Bath Theatre Academy, comprising 28 performers and a student technician working alongside The Egg’s professional team.
Directed by Jenny Davies, Sam Holcroft’s drama The Wardrobe is a gripping tale of triumph and challenge, highlighting stories across the decades, including hundreds of conversations and millions of moments, through which one wardrobe stands true, strong and… safe?
It Snows transports audiences to a small town in the UK with the world laid bare and a chill in the air. Directed by Kate Pasco and written by Bryony Lavery, Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, this play - originally staged by Frantic Assembly - is set in a blanketed world of new-fallen snow. Both pieces in the double bill playfully explore worlds where everything changes and nothing changes, when the world stays the same but is very definitely different.
Recommended for audiences aged 12 years and over, The Wardrobe and It Snows were both originally produced by National Theatre Connections, which commissions new plays for young theatre-makers written by some of the UK's most exciting writers.
Bath Theatre Academy return from Thursday 19th to Saturday 21st May as final year students perform Joy Wilkinson’s The Sweet Science of Bruising which will be staged in the round at The Egg. Directed by Julia Head, this thrilling, physical performance is set in the fierce underbelly of London’s boxing scene. Surrounded by smoke, bowler-hats and bare-knuckle boys, four women controlled by men and constrained by corsets find an unexpected freedom in the boxing ring. This piece of theatre about suffrage and silence explores feminism, masculinity and fight. The culmination of two years of study in Performing and Production Arts, The Sweet Science of Bruising is being staged by a company of 14 students, including 2 stage management students mentored by and working alongside professional technicians at The Egg.
Bath Theatre Academy’s mini-season of four productions is completed by Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street which appears from Thursday 26th to Saturday 28th May. The team behind a recent sell-out success with Spring Awakening return for another sold out run as they invite audiences at The Egg to face their demons in Sondheim’s musical thriller.
London’s demon-barber-turned-butcher has been wronged and sets out on a quest for vengeance, but his road to revenge is a path of brutal savagery. Who will survive in a world where man devours man? This murderous musical production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International and is directed by Lily Dyble. The show is presented by 15 BTA students, including 14 actors and an assistant stage manager mentored by The Egg’s professional technicians.
In addition, for Bath Theatre Academy’s 2022 spring season, students have also been mentored by theatre professionals in the roles of assistant director and assistant designer. BTA’s three-week performance residency is also being supported by approximately 35 freelance theatre professionals including stage technicians, fight directors and designers.
Bath Theatre Academy’s hugely popular Performing and Production Arts course attracts students, aged 16 to 21 years, from both the local area and further afield. Students are now busy with intensive rehearsals ahead of their mini-season of four productions, which will be performed from 12th to 28th May, for audiences at The Egg.
Young people interested in applying to secure a place at Bath Theatre Academy this September, can find out more at: www.bath.theatre.academy
Tickets for Bath Theatre Academy’s productions are on sale at the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844, The Egg on 01225 823 409 and online via www.theatreroyal.org.uk
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