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Workington Playgoers are delighted to announce that the Youth Theatre  started up this February 2024!

It will be known as 

THEATRE ROYAL RISING STARS YOUTH THEATRE

Theatre Royal Youth (TRY) was disbanded  in 2022

Please browse below, at the extraordinary amount of plays TRY has performed over the  years 2014-2022

Girls Like That
An Alien Gathering!
Last Time TRY Members Were Together Before Disbanding.
Girls Like That

2014
The Lost Boy
By Millie Hardy Sims

2015
Sleeping Beauty
By Millie Hardy Sims

Hansel and Gretel
By Brothers Grimm
Adapted by Millie Hardy Sims

2016
Pinocchio
Adapted for the stage by Millie Hardy Sims

Unhappily Ever After
by Millie Hardy Sims

It’s a Wonderful Life
Adapted by Tony Palermo

2017
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
By Millie Hardy Sims

The Wind in the Willows
Adapted by Kenneth Grahame

2018
Alice in Wonderland
Written by Lewis Carroll
Adapted for the Stage by Brainerd Duffield

Spring Showcase
Directed by Sophie Mackenzie

Oliver Twist
Written by Charles Dickens
Adapted for the stage by Paul Adams

A Christmas Carol
Written by Charles Dickens
Adapted for the stage by Guy Williams

2019
Girls Like That
Written by Evan Placey

The Railway Children
Written by E. Nesbit
Adapted by Dave Simpson

Swallows and Amazons
Written by A. Ransome
Adapted by Helen Edmundson

2020
Tuesday
By Alison Carr
In collaboration with National Theatre’s Connections Project.

2021
Crusaders
by Frances Poet
In collaboration with National Theatre’s Connections Project.

2022
Hunt
by Fionnuala Kennedy
In collaboration with National Theatre’s Connections Project.

How to Spot An Alien
by Georgia Christou

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