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From the streets of Bangor to national galleries, from stages to screen, from performing to scriptwriting, and from dancing to devising - that's what Young Company is all about.
What’s the Young Company?
Frân Wen’s Young Company is a theatre company driven by young people in north west Wales in order to:
develop theatre-making and performing skills
share creative ideas with other young people
collaborate a co-create with exceptional artists
share stories in unique ways
have a lot of fun!
Just performing?
Creating theatre is so much more than just performing on stage. Our Young Company explores and experiments with various theatre-making skills, including:
Writing
Composing
Design
Film
VR / AR
And if there’s an interest in backstage, there are opportunities with our Tech Young Company.
Which Young Company?
Young Company 1 (yr7-yr9) - meets every Tuesday evening during school term between 5pm-6.30pm.
Young Company 2 (yr10-yr11) - meets every Tuesday evening during the school term between 7pm-9pm.
Young Company 3 (16-25 years old) - meet every other weekend, and some extra intensive dates during the school holidays.
Where does the Young Company meet?
A Young Company member should…
- Be able to regularly contribute to sessions that last:
- An hour and a half (Young Company 1)
- Two hours (Young Company 2)
- Full days on some weekends and/or during school holidays (Young Company 3)
- Able to work comfortably in a group - and if not, able to communicate with session leaders about this.
- Being able to work comfortably in an environment that is sometimes noisy and busy.
- Ability to work with scripts, prose or pieces of text. It is possible for Frân Wen to adapt any text according to an individual's needs e.g. larger size text, text on coloured paper.
- Be prepared to work on various theatre techniques in a collaborative manner, with the focus on collaboration with other people rather than individual work.
- Ability to work in a Welsh-language environment - we welcome Welsh speakers, new speakers and learners.
- Be prepared to work with respect and sensitivity towards the needs of other individuals.
- To be with fire and passion, and ready to contribute and collaborate in a daring, kind and open manner.
Running a Young Company is costly, we ask for a contribution per term.
Young Company is open to everyone, and we don't want the cost to be an obstacle for anyone. There are a few bursaries available for those who receive free school lunches.
Contact us via cifw@franwen.com to receive more information.
Young Company runs in Welsh and we welcome new Welsh speakers. We provide enough support to help members feel confident.
For more information or an informal chat about our Young Company contact Elgan on 01248 715048 or e-mail elgan@franwen.com.
Here's an example of their previous work...
