Strange Town wins RBS Community Force Award
Strange Town has just been awarded £6,000 from the RBS Community Force fund. This is thanks to all our supporters who voted for us to win. The money will go towards our target for helping secure the future of Strange Town, ensuring that young people benefit from all the advantages that youth theatre and drama bring.
http://communityforce.rbs.co.uk/project/314
New Plays: Pantos with a Twist this December: Tickets on sale!
This
term writers from our Young Company have written new plays for our 5 youth
theatre groups on which will be performed in December at the
Scottish Storytelling Centre.
For Beauty and the Beast, Brandshop www.brandshop.co.uk has lent us their huge Timberland boot to use as a prop, so many thanks to them! 
Young Company Christmas Performances
The Young Company will be performing Tinseltrash by Alan Gordon, Tim Primrose & Sam Siggs at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on Sun 18 and Mon 19 December at 7.30pm - call box office 0131 556 9579 to book your tickets to see the Christmas show for people who don't like Christmas....
Strange Town at the Traverse: March 2012
After the runaway success of HEX in the Edinburgh Fringe, Strange Town Young Company has been invited to perform HEX at the Traverse 8-10th March 2012.
Strange Town at the Fringe 2011
Strange Town Young Company and Youth Theatre both had great success performing at the Edinburgh Fringe at Out of the Blue and Hill Street Venue. After You've Gone by Duncan Kidd and Hex by Tim Primrose and Sam Siggs had great audiences and received five star reviews. Irvine Welsh supported Strange Town hugely helping us promote both shows. Click on Young Company and Youth Theatre pages for more details.
Strange Town 14-18s took their show Truth Dare Kiss to Rothes Halls in July and took the festival by storm. Live music and sparky dialogue entertained the 300 plus audience, largely made up of youth theatres from around the world.
Strange Town Benefit Gig
4 bands played for Strange Town on Fri 3 June: all ticket sales went to support the work of Strange Town:-
Friends of Strange Town
FOST (Friends of Strange Town) has been set up to raise money for Strange Town's activities.
If you would like to become a Friend of Strange Town and help secure the company's future, please email info@strangetown.org.uk
Donations
If you would like to donate to Strange Town, please click on the donate button on the left of this page.
Strange Town June 2011 Shows
We did it again! Seven performances of four new plays, all of which were sold out or nearly:-
Strange Town December 2010 Shows
We performed and sold out FOUR new plays at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the Royal Mile. All of the plays were written by members of our Young Company for the youth theatre.
Strange Town at the Edinburgh Fringe 2010
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Strange Town's 14-18s took the Royal Lyceum stage by storm on June 10th with Duncan Kidd's new play 'Wearing Badges Is Not Enough', as part of the Connect Festival. The group also took the play to Rothes Halls on July 2nd, where it kickstarted the National Festival of Youth Theatre.
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NEW OFFICE AT OUT OF THE BLUE
Strange Town now has an office at Out of the Blue, as well as running all its youth theatre sessions there. Our address is:-
Strange Town c/o Out of the Blue, 36 Dalmeny St, EH6 8RG
Tel: 0131 629 0292
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Strange Town is now on Facebook - check it out!
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BURSARIES
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STRANGE TOWN SCHOOLS PROJECTS
Boroughmuir High and St George's School
Strange Town worked with groups of pupils from S3-S6 at Boroughmuir High and St George's school in Edinburgh between August 08 and April last year. Each of the three groups of young people created new plays with the Strange Town team, which they then performed in their schools to very positive feedback. The project was an exciting challenge - creating new pieces of theatre in very limited time periods, and one which demonstrated the strengths and developed the skills of the groups.
Gracemount High, St Mary's and Stockbridge Primaries
Strange Town started similar projects in additional Edinburgh schools as of September 09. Gracemount High has worked with us on one of our Create projects. St Mary's Primary and Stockbridge Primary now have Strange Town in their schools running after school drama.
If you would like your school to work with Strange Town, or would like more info about Strange Town's education work, go to our schools page.
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AWARD FOR STRANGE TOWN
Strange Town was given an award from First Port and Scotland UnLtd to enable the company to continue and develop its work in 2010.
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WAITING LIST
Our 14-18s group (Leith) is full. If you would like your name added to the waiting list for this group, please email info@strangetown.org.uk There are still spaces in our Wednesday and Friday afternoon groups (8-10s and 11-14s).
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Promote YT
Strange Town is a member of Promote YT www.promoteyt.co.uk
the national agency promoting and developing youth theatre in Scotland.
N.Y.T.E (Network of Youth Theatres in Edinburgh)
Strange Town is pleased to announce it is now a member of NYTE. NYTE was formed by Strange Town, Balerno Youth Theatre and the Lyceum Youth Theatre. The network was established in order to forge links between Edinburgh's leading youth theatres and to find ways of sharing high quality practice. The organisation regularly runs exciting youth theatre events which promote the wide range of innovative theatre workshops available to young people throughout Edinburgh.