Young, Gifted and Back at Buxton Fringe

PRESS RELEASE 1st June 2014 - for immediate release

This year’s Buxton Fringe (July 9-27) features the return of some of the festival’s most popular and acclaimed young performers

Last year’s Young Drama Fringe Award winner REC Youth Theatre tackles Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills set in the shadows of the Second World War while 2011 Fringe winners Shadow Syndicate offer Lapse, an energetic piece on the unseen consequences of human choice.

A hotbed of theatrical talent, Buxton Community School features performances from both Spotlight Theatre with Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, and Dilate Theatre with the surreal Asylum by Keith Aisner.

New to the Fringe but by no means to Buxton, PB Theatricals Youth Theatre, featuring a local cast led by professionals, offers its take on Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury. The show will be performed at St Thomas More School where you can also see a musical of a very different kind as local community choir Mad Hatters Music performs Les Miserables.

For classic productions given a fresh young twist, try JM Youth Productions’ As You Like It or CHS Youth Theatre Company’s Crossroads, retelling the Faust myth with a hint of comedy. Or for something altogether stranger, JM Youth Productions are also putting on Ionesco’s farcical The Chairs in which a very old, island-bound couple pass the time with mind games and chair manoeuvres.

Fringe chair Keith Savage says: ‘It’s great to see so many young people performing at the Fringe. Thanks to the financial support we receive from our sponsor The University of Derby as well as The Osborne Group and High Peak Borough Council, we are able to keep entry fees low, which makes all the difference.’

The Fringe also wishes to thank its Fringe Friends and its venues and supporters around the town.

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