Cardiff's leading musical youth theatre /young people's theatre group

We've already done quite a few things in the YoYos - take a look at what we've done so far....

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2011

The culmination of most of the year's work was performed for parents at Roath Church House in June, as we performed our special modern take on the Pied Piper of Hamelin. With virtually no props and almost no set, our special band created a rat-infested London like no other!

Most of the YoYos joined with the main group's production of West Side Story at the Howardian Centre in Cardiff in April. This was a large scale production, and the addition of the YoYos made for an enormous cast! Several of last year's YoYos graduates were also in the show.

2010

A busy year, 2010!

In November, the YoYos joined the main group for the full scale show Pop Goes the Musical which we performed at the Howardian Centre. The YoYos had some song/dances on their own, but also joined with the older members to perform several songs.

October saw the YoYos contacted by Cardiff-based contemporary music group Waco Gwenci, who joined us for a couple of weeks of filming, for use as part of the film they'll use to accompany their public performances of their music. It was a great opportunity for the group to have some experience of filming, as well as a chance to put into practice some of the miming skills we've been working on.

Also in 2010, two of our members were chosen to be the representatives for Wales at the first ever World Children's Theatre Ensemble, which was held in London in September. The group, including children from nearly 30 other countries, worked together for a week, before joining forces with 1000 British young people for a very special evening. The performance was held at The Royal Albert Hall, and everyone enjoyed a truly unique experience - audience and performers alike.

A further two of our members were involved in the main company production, a newly commissioned musical Life, Actually, which was performed in July.

In June, we did a full promenade performance of A Midsummer Night's (Little) Dream - a reduced version of the Shakespeare, but with all the characters and many of the original lines. We couldn't fit too big an audience into the hall, so we had to restrict it to parents only.

2009

In July, the group performed A Typical YoYos Session which gave parents and families a chance to see the kinds of things the group get up to at our weekly sessions, when we're not rehearsing a show.

We also worked on Hiawyn Oram's play The Good Time Boys which we presented as a work-in-progress to parents and family in March.

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2008

The YoYos joined the main group for our special Christmas concert in December 2008 - A Christmas Cracker. There are some photos on the page too, and show YoYo members in rehearsal. They sang and danced in a number of the songs as part of the whole company.

Three of our more experienced members had small parts in the main company play in July 2008, The Oedipus Plays.

Prior to these, we also did two full public shows:

Rose and the Wicked Wolfee! (March 2008)  How to Eat Like a Child (February 2007)

Click on the links above to find out more about the shows, and to see the photos from them. The photos on this page are taken from the shows and there are lots more YoYo photos scattered about the website.

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