Some recent productions...
2024
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Stratford Youth Theatre were thrilled to present the first ever stage adaptation of ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ at The Bear Pit Theatre.
Based on the international best selling and much loved children’s books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles shares the fantastical adventures of the Grace children—Jared, Simon, and their older sister Mallory.
This production was presented with the kind permission of The Spiderwick Studios.
Photographs by Patrick Baldwin
2023
The Clopton Ghosts
The IT
First commissioned and produced by The National Theatre Connections in 2020. 'The IT’ by Vivienne Franzemann, is a darkly comic state of the nation play exploring adolescence and the rage within, written very specifically for today.
With a local cast of 25 young people, this will be Stratford Youth Theatre’s first performance at The Bear Pit Theatre.
2022
2021
A Christmas Carol
Set in the beautiful surroundings of BELL COURT and as part of Stratford-upon-Avon’s vibrant Victorian Christmas Market.
The performance was open air, so audience members wrapped up warm and were able to soak up the Dickensian atmosphere of this much loved tale.
2021
Find A Partner
Find A Partner, by Miriam Battye, was performed as part of the annual youth theatre initiative from the National Theatre, Connections 2021, designed to give young people all over the country an experience of theatrical performance and production.
Venue: Open Air at Stratford Racecourse & Digital at The Belgrade, Coventry.
The play is a fascinating story of dating in dystopia - Love Island and Take Me Out meets The Hunger Games - and contestants who fail to find a partner, are taken out, literally. Pop culture references, explorations of social media, self absorption and reality show tampering generate important questions about how we find, and define, love in a modern climate.
2020
Witches Can't Be Burned
By Silva Simerciyan as part of The National Theatre's Connections 2020 Festival.
Venue: Warwick Arts Centre
Set against the backdrop of a group of students performing Arthur Miller’s
The Crucible, Witches Can’t Be Burned explores the changing perceptions of gender, protest and equality, putting Miller’s iconic play, its relevance and its politics on trial.
