Today (Tuesday) sees the arrival of the Cast & Production Team of Youth Music Theatre:UK's production of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Rehearsals begin today at 2pm, when the 27-strong cast will meet and begin preparations for the show, being staged at the Aberdeen Arts Centre next month. The cast has been selected from the cream of Youth Theatre in the UK, with many local youngsters being chosen for the residential 2-week intensive course.
Great Expectations will be a vivid recreation of the Dickens classic distilled into a visual feast of musical theatre. This is Great Expectations as you have never seen it before. YMT:UK will create a show that is invigorating, comic and heart-breaking with an original blend of song, clowning and physical storytelling theatre in which members of the audience become collaborators in the creation of Pip’s world.
Together we will meet the eccentric Miss Haversham, have our hearts broken by the beautiful Estella, and speculate over the identity of our mysterious benefactor.
This production plays with Dickens’ ingredients, yet remains faithful to the language, characterisation and emotion of the original work. It will awaken you imagination, make you laugh and move you. Join us for an evening of potent musical theatre.
AIYF would like to welcome all those involved with YMT:UK to this year's Festival, and look forward to the production in August.
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