National Youth Theatre inaugurate "The Sanctuary"
A brand new amphitheater, built at Soulton during the lockdown to respond to C-19 is opened with an NYT performance of a brand new play.
A sense of the event can be found in the social media emdedded below.
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'If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s how we crave meaningful connection through great storytelling.'
— WhatsOnStage (@WhatsOnStage) October 22, 2020
NYT artistic director Paul Roseby discusses new outdoor show The Great Harvest: https://t.co/tuEmgpm6fP pic.twitter.com/MFw5PCgRBF
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Big thanks to the 160 audience members young and old who joined us to open The Sanctuary Theatre @SoultonHall with The Last Harvest this week as part of #Signalfires.
— NationalYouthTheatre (@NYTofGB) October 23, 2020
Break a leg to all our friends staging #SignalFires shows this weekend. #SupportTheArts
📸 @helenmurraypix pic.twitter.com/iO11EGz50o
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@NYTofGB leading the forefront of creating new theatre work. A safe, creative and joyous week on site at @SoultonHall with an incredible cast, crew and creative team. Thank you to everyone who made it possible and for everyone who came to support live arts and young talent! pic.twitter.com/lHVaBv1GhF
— anthony (@AntPapamichael) October 25, 2020
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Really good evening
— Huw Peach #FBPE #ClimateActionNow (@HuwpHuw) October 25, 2020
Talented young actors
An audience hungry for something stimulating, challenging & unifying
Great to see a farm transformed into an outdoor theatre
Thanks for bringing us all back together, Tim
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Soulton Hall, #Shropshire, Wednesday 21st October 2020
— Huw Peach #FBPE #ClimateActionNow (@HuwpHuw) October 24, 2020
National Youth Theatre
The Last Harvest pic.twitter.com/hiff9IYPRq
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Gloriously eerie theatre to break the 9 month fast- a field in deepest Shropshire under the radiant harvest moon and punctuated by smoke flares and sound installations. Thanks to the young talent of @NYTofGB for lighting up the night. https://t.co/axs58cjlHw
— Heather May (@HeatherAliceMay) October 23, 2020
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Huge congratulations and thanks to the brilliant creatives and cast @NYTofGB for last night's incredibly magical, immersive and emotionally charged 🌾#TheLastHarvest 🌾#signalfires 🔥 @SoultonHall feel very privileged to have experienced such a special event. pic.twitter.com/p2TRJWeaBG
— FREYA HANNAN-MILLS (@FreyaHMills) October 23, 2020
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More 📸s of #TheLastHarvest created by our awesome cast & creative team listed â–¶ï¸ https://t.co/9sCAG9Ezjq
— NationalYouthTheatre (@NYTofGB) October 23, 2020
📸 by @helenmurraypix https://t.co/BUs56Ptaq7 pic.twitter.com/1YnIsYpaMG
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Check out photos of @NYTofGB's The Last Harvest!https://t.co/u1Atio8fc8
— BroadwayWorld UK (@BroadwayWorldUK) October 23, 2020
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And more pics from @NYTofGB @SoultonHall because it was SOOO good - huge congrats to all the cast & creative team who co created & rehearsed over zoom and only met 3 days ahead of the first show pic.twitter.com/uyf3qUqsNR
— KT (@artsturn) October 23, 2020
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Just brilliant to be at the live show @NYTofGB @SoultonHall last night #TheLastHarvest - urgent, compelling, promenade theatre, brilliantly staged at the new earth amphitheatre and with a message of real hope - the future in the hands of our young people #signalfires pic.twitter.com/N6aaCa5AUr
— KT (@artsturn) October 23, 2020
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Absolutely amazing performance by @NYTofGB at @SoultonHall - totally immersive. Incredible actors, writing, and superb use of light and sound. Very powerful message too #TheLastHarvest #SignalFires #onfarmculture #NationalYouthTheatre pic.twitter.com/pu9I1bXKSW
— John Reade (@DrJohnReade) October 22, 2020
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Such a good night @SoultonHall watching @NYTofGB ðŸ‘ðŸ½ðŸ‘ðŸ½ðŸ‘🽠pic.twitter.com/BR5zveZnOY
— Donatella Butt (@DonatellaButt) October 22, 2020
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The powerful ending to The Last Harvest @NYTofGB last night will stay with me for a long time.
— Deborah Walton (@DebsRWalton) October 22, 2020
The next generation are demanding change of so many things - our environmental priorities, our economic priorities and our political structures. To ignore their voices is foolishness https://t.co/HGpeU66F37
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Here is the theatre set up for tonight's @NYTofGB production The Last Harvest. I would love to see more landowners and farmers responding to Covid with this level of spatial creativity and generosity. pic.twitter.com/ObuBXD8vbA
— Phineas Harper (@PhinHarper) October 22, 2020
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Really honoured to welcome the 1st night audience for the @NYTofGB 's amazing new play here tonight. Written/rehearsed on Zoom, put together on site in 48hrs, a triumphant example imaginatively showing how we can sustain culture, what is possible even in these extraordinary days pic.twitter.com/FSF9qMoSIa
— Soulton Hall (@SoultonHall) October 21, 2020
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The audience arrives for The Last Harvest @NYTofGB @SoultonHall fabulous production, wonderful performances, challenging and moving #emotional #livetheatre #signalfires #onfarmculture #grateful pic.twitter.com/e5CO4zvdNK
— Deborah Walton (@DebsRWalton) October 21, 2020
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Big thanks to our amazing cast, crew & creatives who only met in person this Monday after rehearsing online and have pulled together something truly EPIC.
— NationalYouthTheatre (@NYTofGB) October 21, 2020
Co-directors @zoe_lafferty & Joel Scott
Movement @pappy_show
Prop Designer and Maker - Rosheen McNamee
📸 @helenmurraypix pic.twitter.com/BSyoFVTKcT
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Great performance of @NYTofGB The Last Harvest premiered this evening @SoultonHall - bravo to everybody involved - great to see #onfarmculture alive in Shropshire
— Bryn Thomas (@bryncrops) October 21, 2020
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Lighting and sound check ahead of the @NYTofGB 's first in person performance since the lockdown
— Soulton Hall (@SoultonHall) October 19, 2020
It's a brand new work and will inaugurate this brand new earthen #amphitheatre which didn't exist 9 weeks ago, but was built here to support live performance & culture during C19... pic.twitter.com/cYaOwonSQx
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Sneak peak of The Last Harvest opening tonight @SoultonHall as part of #SignalFires 🔥🔥🔥
— NationalYouthTheatre (@NYTofGB) October 21, 2020
Can’t wait to welcome live in-person socially distanced audiences for the first time since the start of the pandemic. #NYTMELT pic.twitter.com/ULTEgqgycQ
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Strange what a pandemic does to you - feeling a childlike excitement in my tummy about going out to this this evening - can’t wait, hoping it doesn’t rain but I’m not even too bothered if it does!!! https://t.co/cRcLwXd7MW
— Deborah Walton (@DebsRWalton) October 21, 2020