Welcome
Suffolk Youth Theatre provides experiences for children and young people via classes, workshops and productions.
Walli Meier is the Honorary Patron of Suffolk Youth Theatre.
Suffolk Youth Theatre is one of the region's leading youth theatre companies. It has gained a deserved reputation for innovative and visually exciting shows.
Suffolk Youth Theatre is for children and young people aged 5 - 21 who have an interest in drama and the performing arts. Click ‘About us’ to find out more.
The annual SYT production offers participants a unique experience of working collaboratively with other artistically driven young people from a range of Suffolk schools. Over the six-month rehearsal period the company work together with a team of professional artists and designers, culminating in performances at The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich.
In addition to this, Suffolk Youth Theatre hosts an annual one-week summer school involving 50 young people. In one intensive week of workshops and rehearsals they devise and perform an original piece of theatre, fusing drama, music and dance.
Many of the young people involved study Drama and Performing Arts at GCSE and A level and go on to pursue these interests at Degree level. Several past members are now working professionally in theatre and film and can be seen in the West End, National Theatre and on BBC1!
Some of our past events are shown below. Click the image to follow the link.
Jayne Eyre
'Jane Eyre' by
Charlotte Bront‘
Adapted by Michael Platt and Pat Whymark
A musical story of madness, secrets and passion
'My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child.'
Fuente Ovejuna
Ring the bell of freedom
Let it sound in the streets
And in the field
So that all the people may hear it
Let us remember the day of courage
Let us share again the day of truth
The day of liberation
For Fuente Ovejuna
Yerma
Yerma, young and married, but apparently unable to bear her husband a child, struggles against fate as she tries to find her identity within a repressive and claustrophobic community..
