THC students take to the stage

Print PageSend to friend

THC students take to the stage
Creative & Media Diploma class working on set design for Half Moon Young People’s Theatre

THC Creative & Media Diploma students recently completed a week’s work experience at the Half-Moon Young People’s Theatre. They learnt about stage and lighting design with professional designers before designing and building a set for the play ‘Begin/ End’ by David Lane, which was performed for an appreciative audience by Theatre Hullabaloo on 31st May.

Half Moon Young People’s Theatre aims to produce and present professional theatre for and with young people that informs, challenges and shapes their artistic potential, placing these creative experiences at the core of their policies and practices. They aim to produce and present professional theatre at the base, in venues and in youth and schools settings, and provide an extensive participatory programme including youth theatres, school and community projects.
The company principally serves London and works exclusively with young people from birth to age 17, placing a particular emphasis upon engaging those often excluded in terms of culture (ethnicity) and ability (disability).

Begin/End 2010

A compelling piece of new writing by David Lane for ages 14+
Sometimes things just end
Not like in films and on TV
Not with explosions and music and fights
They just dissolve and disappear and you don't know why

Lili pounds out her anger and uncertainty, one length at a time in the swimming pool. Yaz won't become what others want and aspires to a life elsewhere.

The birth of their friendship sparks two years of adventure, inseparable friends, a gang of two, they breathe freedom, possibility and ambition.

I want to plunge her fist into my ribcage
Wrap her hand around my heart so she can feel what it's made of.

But something unspoken grows between them. As relationships form and dissolve, it is the beginning and the end of everything.

Projection, moving image and a contemporary soundtrack by one of Britain's freshest new producers, invigorate this compelling tale that forces us all to question our own truths.

"David Lane's two-hander maps the girls' relationship with intensity, in writing that is flecked with everyday poetry." Lyn Gardner (The Guardian)

If you want to read more about the development process, head to the blog, which features updates from members of the creative team from the rehearsal room as well as tales from the tour

http://halfmoonbeginend.blogspot.com/