Youth Theatre provision at the Princes Theatre started in October 1994. In an effort to encourage children to become more actively involved in theatre, a programme of Wednesday evening theatre workshops were introduced whereby young people could develop their talents in a range of performing arts. Students from 7 years to young adults attend classes every Wednesday during term time and participate in dance, drama and musical theatre. Whilst we appreciate some students may wish to specialise in one particular subject our aim is to give an overall performance training with lots of performance opportunities.

Almost immediately the workshops proved to be a huge success, so much so it was decided to showcase their hard work and in March 1995 over 80 students took part in our first ever production, "Bugsy Malone". The picture below is of the cast in the 2007 performance of "We will rock you".

Since that time our weekly workshops and annual productions have been a huge success. Each year the Company present a stage musical or play followed by a traditional Christmas pantomime. Members of the Company have performed in the District's twin town of Biberach in Germany and several students have progressed to full time employment in the entertainment industry.