Charlton Horethorne Youth Theatre Challenge

For 8 weeks in February, March and April Jenny directed a "Youth Theatre" in our Village Hall. Up to 22 young people aged between 7 and 15 came along each week, wrote their own play, made the scenery and props, borrowed and operated lighting and sound systems and put on two performances on Saturday 4 April. All this with just the lightest guidance from a small number of adults. The play, entitled "The Monks' Place Mystery" was about the ghost of a monk seen and exorcised about fifty years ago in an Elizabethan house in our village and the lady who saw the ghost as a young woman was present in the audience. The young people enjoyed the experience and want to do another play next year. The Village Hall committee backed the project (the first of its kind in the village) and were rewarded with a profit of over £650.