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Islington Youth Theatre were runners up at the Spirt of London Awards 2009

The bulk of Islington Community Theatre's work is created through our four young companies - comprising around 150 permanent members aged 10-19.

We also run ad hoc and bespoke projects according to local need, interest and in response to specific commissions and are developing a bespoke training and mentoring programme for young theatre-makers aged 19-25 who have previously been involved in our work.

All of our company members are offered their places on the basis of how much they'll benefit from being involved. We work in collaboration with schools, colleges and other local agencies to reach people who would never normally become involved in theatre projects.

It is really important to us that our companies are made up of young people from the widest possible backgrounds.

Our young companies: Getting involved

Islington Community Theatre is made up of a number of young companies - groups of 15-30 young people who train and make theatre together. These young companies are grouped roughly by age:

Oracle Projects for young people aged 10-12 (Years 6 and 7)

Islington Youth Theatre for young people aged 12-16 (Years 8-11)

Work in Progress for young people aged 16-19 (Years 11, 12 and beyond)

Each young company meets weekly. We make work within the young companies but also as a whole company (e.g. members from each young company might come together to make a new play with a cast ranging in age from 10-19).

We also run a specialist collective of young playwrights: Speakeasy (for young people aged 14-19).

Getting involved

Almost all our members are nominated by their schools, colleges or youth organisations. They are nominated by their teachers and youth workers and come to us through special recruitment workshops which take place in September at the start of the academic year.

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