CHARLTON HORETHORNE YOUTH THEATRE

Last Friday was the first meeting of the 2010 Youth Theatre. 32 young people aged from 8 to 16 met in the Village Hall to read through the script which some of them had written, to chose a name for the play (Dust and Bones) and to volunteer for roles both on stage and backstage. They will meet under adult guidance for the next seven weeks then put on three performance on 26 and 27 March. Acting, set construction, props, costumes, music, dance, sound, lights, publicity, front-of-house etc will all be done by the young people, who pay £1 a week to attend. The Youth Theatre started in 2009 under the guidance of Jenny Peet and Bill Closs and "Dust and Bones" builds on last year's play to become an intriguing murder/mystery/whodunit involving both real and imagined characters in the village. So successful was last year's youth theatre that Somerset County Council have made a generous grant to cover the cost of filming this year's, a new sound system and lights, costumes, makeup, and improved changing facilities. Watch this space.