Theatre Preview - START SWIMMING - THE PEOPLE'S THEATRE, NEWCASTLE - 22ND - 23RD FEBRUARY

1984 meets The Hunger Games

Francesca Secker, Jem Etherington, Alistair Wilson,
Madeleine Secker - A Musician

This weekend sees a cast of fifteen members of YPT aged 12 to 16 take to the Studio Theatre stage, at The People's Theatre, Newcastle,  with James Fritz’s START SWIMMING.

George Orwell’s 1984 meets The Hunger Games in this thought-provoking drama about oppression and revolution, asking what power young people have to affect change and resist authority.

Back Row - Isabella Warburton Brown, Imogen Henderson,
 Olivia Mawdesley (An Oppressor)
Front Row - Ethan Rutherford,
Phoebe De'Ath, Beth Crinnion (An Oppressor) 

The play was developed by the Young Vic Taking Part department and was first performed at London’s Young Vic in 2017. It subsequently transferred to Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In the introduction in the published text, Fritz writes that “our aim was to make something that would articulate how our cast felt about growing up marginalised in a major city during a time of incredible political upheaval.”

Abigail Mableson - An Oppressed &
Ethan Rutherford - An Oppressor

START SWIMMING is the first show of the exciting Spring/Summer Season which also includes Tom Stoppard classic ARCADIA, Oscar Wilde’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST and gothic horror FRANKENSTEIN.

Phoebe De'Ath - An Oppressor, Millie Short - An Oppressed &
Olivia Mawdesley - An Oppressor

PHOTOS by Paula Smart 

START SWIMMING BY JAMES FRITZ

DATE:             Friday 22 – Saturday 23 February 2019

TIME:              7.30pm (plus 2.30pm on Sat 23^rd)

VENUE:          People’s Theatre, Stephenson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5QF

TICKETS:       £10 (Concessions £7)
TELE:              0191 265 5020
WEBSITE:      www.peoplestheatre.co.uk