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Belgrade Youth Theatres
The Belgrade Youth Theatre runs skills based workshops, produces performances and organises visits to the theatre for 7 - 25 year olds.
We currently run three weekly in-house groups:
Junior Youth Theatre for 7 - 11 years, Middle Youth Theatre 12 - 15 years and Seniors 16 - 25 years.
Our Outreach Youth Theatre groups have been running across Coventry since autumn 2006 in Canley, Tile Hill and Foleshill.
For further information about the Belgrade's Youth Theatres contact us on email via communityadmin@belgrade.co.uk or on the phone via 024 7684 6741.
Belgrade Youth Theatre productions:
The Last Heroes (pictured above)
The first of the C&E Company’s shows inspired by the city’s heritage, The Last Heroes, was a large-scale thriller performed in B2 by almost 50 young people from across the theatre’s in-house and outreach youth theatres.
Young people came together from four different groups to create the show, overcoming territorial boundaries and building communication and friendships across geographical and age divides.
Audiences commented on the exciting use of the B2 space, the fast pace and the high production standards.
The play followed a teenager as she found herself getting too close to the city's involvement in the arms trade for safety. Soon she was involved in a war of her own - with her college, with activists, with history, and with a creepy corporation who seemed to know more about her family than she did.
Now You See Me . . . Now You Don’t (pictured below)
The Junior Youth Theatres performed their production, Now You See Me… Now You Don’t, to sell out audiences in February 2008. The half-term show, which was created by and for 5 – 13 year olds, was a cartoon style performance full of play, movement, puppetry and visual illusion with live music by local musician, Si Hayden.
The young performers turned socks into old men, mops into noisy neighbours and magic mirrors into a gateway between the living and the dead. The show brought together the in-house Junior Youth Theatre with our predominantly Asian outreach Junior Youth Theatre group from Foleshill, providing valuable lessons in community cohesion for both groups, and resulting in many friendships being forged.
The production also offered a post performance workshop for audience members - this was oversubscribed and a good opportunity for young audiences to gain an insight into how the performance piece was created.
The show was directed by Lyndi Smith, a past member of the Belgrade’s Youth Theatre, and participant in many of its show in the early 1990s. 
Following the success of Horrible Histories, The Birmingham Stage Company returns with the exciting story of a 10-year-old boy battling his way through the Horrible Science World from 16 - 20 Feb.
Quirky, fun and refreshing, The Dark Side of Buffoon is a deliciously dark comedy set in an Italian circus at the turn of the 20th century.
Starring Craig Chalmers, one of the most popular finalists in the hit BBC series Any Dream Will Do, this spectacular musical is full of unforgettable songs.
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