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Dateline: 25th July, 2006
God Save the Teen! To mark the exact anniversary of its first performance fifty years ago, the National Youth Theatre will stage a free, live, flash-mob style theatre event in Trafalgar Square on 10th September, celebrating fifty years of the Teen. Starting at 12pm with a parade to Trafalgar Square, up to 1500 young actors and performers will take over the square, transform it into a colourfully chaotic performance space and fill it with a series of performances and interactions with the public. These performances will start small and intimate and increase in scale and ambition throughout the afternoon to an 8pm climax, where the whole square will become a teenager's bedroom. The square will then play host to a finale of light, fire, music and performance, with a narrative celebrating the re-birth of the teen and the triumph of teenage hedonism over maturity, consumerism and growing up gracefully. The biggest event ever staged by the National Youth Theatre, God Save the Teen has been written by BBC's Flash Mob Opera and the Manchester Passion's Stephen Powell, and directed by Artistic Director Paul Roseby and a team of National Youth Theatre directors. Comments Paul Roseby, "Having 1500-2000 NYT members available to us as performers and facilitators means that we can take over the whole area and make it into one huge performance space, where the focus shifts from moment to moment. Risky maybe but we know from Flashmob, Manchester Passion and Shakespeare in the Square that the approach works and that risk means great reward." Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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