This summer Curve are launching an exciting, new Young People’s Company for people aged 12 to 26-years-old, including Arts Council England’s A Night Less Ordinary initiative to offer free theatre tickets to young people. The Young Company at Curve will include:

Young Curve Productions
A young production company made up of performers, stage managers and technicians who will produce a piece of theatre to be performed on the stage at Curve. The first Young Curve Productions will be performed in July 2011.

Young Facilitators
A group of young people will deliver peer-lead workshops at Curve, out in schools and the community. They will provide support to professional artists in the delivery of the Young Company programme and also support the produced and visiting work programmes at Curve.

A Night Less Ordinary
An Arts Council England initiative that enables under 26’s to access free tickets to quality theatre. The scheme will includes all Curve production, such as Hot Stuff, The King and I and the Curve co-production of Akram Kahn’s Vertical Road.

Monthly ‘drop in’ workshops
A regular programme of informal workshops for young individuals interested in the theatre-making process, with the aim of involving a greater number of young people in creative activity connected to the produced and visiting work programmes at Curve.

Young Marketing Forum
A group of marketing volunteers, aged 14-20, who will support the activity of the Communications Team to devise new and interesting ways to engage with young audiences.

Adel Al-Salloum, the Curve’s Associate Director, explained the importance of encouraging young people to get involved.

“Young people are vital to the development of an exciting theatre and its artistic community. Following the fantastic response we’ve had to His Dark Materials and The Long Road projects, we are thrilled to launch the Young Company this autumn. The initiative will offer young people in Leicestershire and the East Midlands a range of opportunities to engage with Curve and get involved with what we do.”

Young people under the age of 26 are eligible to register interest in Curve’s Young Company, which will include the benefit of free tickets as part of A Night Less Ordinary, by calling the Ticket Office on 0116 242 3595 or in person at the Ticket Office at Curve or the Curve sales outlet at Highcross shopping centre.

For those interested in getting involved with the work at Curve who are older than 26, the Experience Curve programme offers a variety of opportunities to participate. Events range from building tours, to post-show discussions with acting companies and directors, to tailored workshops and master classes.