Worcester TheatreMakers

It is with deep sadness I have to write this post.
My Co Director, business partner and best friend, Beth Walsh exited the stage last night for the last time.

She was peaceful and her family were with her.

Anyone who knew Beth felt the love and warmth she radiated. She adored our ten years in business together, she was the driving force and I was the engine. We didn't always approach things the same way but we always complimented each other. We were the Yin and Yang of our business, she the thinker, the creator and the socialite, me the doer, the organiser and the planner.
She loved every single one of the children and adults that came through our sessions. She just "got" kids, even the shyest and most challenging children would blossom under her gaze and guidance.

She will be deeply missed by so many. Worcester TheatreMakers was a family and all of you were part of that
Thank you

Bev # # #

Thank you Worcester Theatres and NTConnections for a great festival. Photos of our show to come...

What do you do when you can't find a pair of roller boots to fit a cast member? You ask a good friend to help, and she makes these!

Thank you for making such an amazing and authentic costume item for our 80s show 'Back in the Day' which will be performed tomorrow morning at the The Swan as part of the festival.
Our play, written by Yasmeen Khan, is the first of 3, so see you there bright and early at 10.30am!
Tickets on website.

Our Senior Youth Theatre will be performing 'Back in the Day' next Thursday and we'd love you to come along.

Worcester Community Lottery have this rather excelletn superdraw on at the moment!

Please support us by buying a ticket or two!

Support Worcester TheatreMakers CIC on Worcester Community Lottery Worcester TheatreMakers CIC is offering you the chance to win £25,000 and help raise much needed funds.

Waiting wearily at a London bus stop after a full on day of learning at the 2023 National Theatre Connections Directors Weekend.

Our Inters group still has places! If you have a child in school years 5 - 8 who would benefit from our 10 years of experience delivering confidence- boosting, joyful drama, please send them along for a trial. Our merry band will give them a warm welcome.
We meet on Tuesdays at The Hive at 5.30pm until 7pm during term time.

Email us at [email protected] for more info

So excited!
And the band Beth sings back - up with is playing The Marrs Bar on Friday night! So do come see Low Red Moon !

TWO DAYS TO GO 💥

Who's ready for a weekend filled with LIVE MUSIC?!

3 days, 20 stages, 250 performances - see you on Friday 😉

Full line-up: https://bit.ly/wmf-2023-lineup

YESSSSSSS!
We are so pleased that we have had a second successful application to and will be performing an play!
Currently reading all the plays to choose our top 2!

Our amazing intermediate group just had their dress rehearsal for their pirate show : A Pirates Tale by Janea Dahl..packed full of cheesy puns, this is a joy!

Want to join this merry band in September? For young people in school years 5 to 8. We meet on Tuesdays 5.30pm - 7pm at The Hive studio.

Email us at [email protected] for a consent form.

playing an improvisation game called 'Over the hedge'.

We have 3 places available in our seniors group, which is usually for young people in school years 9 - 13.

Great time to join to get to know everyone before we apply for again next year. Free places for tenants

Perfect for Bev and Beth are relaxing at paid for by our lovely parents
Thank you so much for looking after us!

This week Beth used a guided meditation to end the Seniors Session - a useful technique particularly for our Year 11 students who are all mid GCSEs.

Really enjoyed supporting our fantastic inters assistant Lottie at her showcase at with Performing Arts department.

Well done Lottie - you and your fellow students were great!

Happy Birthday William S # # #

"This is my birthday"
Cassius: Julius Caesar, Act 5 Scene 1

🥳 Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare! 🙌

🎨 The Flower Portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), c.1820-1840. Oil on panel © RSC Theatre Collection

It's not just who get all the attention! Our amazing intermediate group are working towards a pirate show in July! Arrrrrrrrrr!

We have 3 places available at £60 per term and if you are a tenant, you are entitled to a funded place for your child. If your child is a budding theatre kid, send them our way for a trial session! For young people in school years 5 - 9.

Email us at [email protected] for more information.

Intermediate Group meet from 5pm - 7.30pm on Tuesdays at
We're back on Tuesday 25th April.

partner theatre festival at part 4

were the last group to perform, and it was a relief to be let loose on the stage to perform by

They absolutely smashed it! Feedback was wonderful.

We are so proud of you all.

Thanks to
and all at
for all your support. What a fantastic experience for our group.
Thanks to all the parents, friends, and family.
A huge thank you to and Cllr Mel Allcott for sharing some of their divisional funds with us to enable us to take part.

Part 3 of our day at the partner theatre festival with
After watching perform Circle (Dreams Around The Terrible Terrible Past )- a great show indeed - it was our turn for the tech rehearsal. NT mentor director Sammy ran some warm-ups to channel that nervous energy into joy 'We are Worcester TheatreMakers and we are going to look after each other' . It was time to perform...

Part 2 of yesterday's day at the
Partner theatre festival. After watching King Edward VI Five Ways school fabulous performance of Tuesday in the main house, the students had a brilliant writing workshop with Steve Wilson from Crave Arts They explored themes of characters and conflict. Planted some seeds for future work next term.

Photodump from yesterday's superb day at the partner theatre festival at

Part 1 - Dance workshop with Claire from

We love you, Dancefest 💙

Worcester Theatres Worcester Theatres is a registered charity, and is the main arts provider in Worcester, operating Huntingdon Hall and the Swan Theatre. The organisation also has a producing arm in the form of the Swan Theatre’s resident professional theatre company, the Worcester Repertory Company, which annually...

Oops! Missed yesterday. Making up for it by sharing pics of our last rehearsal of the rainforest scene with for by for the FINAL SHOW on Sunday 2nd April at for partner theatre festival.

Our motto is still that you don't need an official stage on which to perform and that theatre can be made anywhere - but when we have such a lovely one at we'd be silly not to take the chance to perform on it. Very excited!

YouthTheatreMakers

Backstage Shenanigans and a Q and A session with the supportive mentor directors after our home performance of Innocent Creatures by at

We are so proud of our Senior Youth Theatre.

Here is the link to buy tickets for our show on Sunday 2nd April at 4.30pm.

£15 buys a ticket for all 3 plays being performed on that day.

https://worcestertheatres.co.uk/whats-on/nt-connections-2023

We are so pleased to have received this funding. Some of our students are already benefitting from our new ability to offer funded places.

We believe Arts Education should have access for all, so we are playing our part.

Funding to help train future theatre stars A Worcester-based theatre group is all set to help train children to become future theatre stars - thanks to £2,580 Community Chest Funding from…