ANTI BULLYING POLICY

ANTI BULLYING POLICY
POLICY STATEMENT
ST MARY’S YOUTH THEATRE acknowledges that bullying behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. We will endeavour to ensure that a secure environment is provided for every young person who wishes to participate in the performing arts. ST MARY’S YOUTH THEATRE acknowledges that bullying can take place and may need to be addressed amongst any combination of persons that are present at ST MARY’S YOUTH THEATRE, regardless of their role: participant, volunteer, staff or board member.

DEFINITION OF BULLYING
Bullying is the use of aggression with the intention of hurting another person. Bullying results in pain and distress to the victim.

BULLYING CAN BE:
Cyber: all areas of internet, such as e-mail and internet chat room misuse
(ie Facebook, Bebo, etc)
Verbal: name-calling, sarcasm, spreading rumours
Emotional: being unfriendly, excluding, tormenting (e.g. hiding possessions, using
threatening gestures).
Physical: pushing, hitting, kicking or any use of violence.
Racist: racial taunts, graffiti, gestures
Homophobic: because of, or focusing on the issue of sexuality
Religious: because of or focusing on the issue of faith
Mobile: phone threats by text messaging and calls misuse of associated technology,
i.e. camera and video facilities

IMPLEMENTATION
Bullying of any description will not be tolerated at St Mary’s Youth Theatre. If anyone feels they are being bullied they should tell whoever is in charge immediately so that a swift investigation can take place and the appropriate action taken.

RENT CAST

Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th September- Everybody ( Aladdin cast too ) needed to rehearse HSM for the awards night on Saturday 5th September.

RENT CAST LIST (UNDERSTUDIES )

MARK COHEN RYAN BROWN
ROGER DAVIS RYAN BRAY
TOM COLLINS THOMAS MARTYN (MICHAEL HUNTER)
BENNY CLEM ABBOTT
JOANNE JEFFERSON JENNY ROBERTS (KIRSTEN MOORE)
ANGEL JAKE MITCHELL
MIMI (SHARED) GEORGIA SEEDHOUSE & VICKY HOLMES
MAUREEN DANIELLE WRIGHT (POPPY-JO LUMLEY)
BLANKET PERSON SADIE WILD
THE MAN JOE TOWERS
RESTAURANT MAN JONNY CHANDLER
MR GREY TIM MATHEWSON
MRS COHEN SOPHIE COCKERHAM
ROGER’S MOM ABIGAIL PRUDHOE
MR JEFFERSON MATTHEW WALKER
MRS JEFFERSON KATIE HESLOP
MIMI’S MOM JESSICA PASSANT
ALEXI DARLING IMOGEN HEY
PAUL MICHAEL HUNTER
GORDON DANIEL WILLIAMS
STEV(I)E SOPHIE COCKERHAM
PAM KAT ORMONDROYD
ALI KIRSTEN MOORE
SUE POPPY-JO LUMLEY
COPS
NOEL NOBLETT,
TOM PINDER, ROBERT PINDER
VENDOR 1 NAOMI STEAD
VENDOR 2 POPPY-JO LUMLEY
SQUEEGIE MAN DAVID BROWN
HOMELESS SOLOISTS
DANIEL WILLIAMS, DAVID BROWN,
KIRSTEN MOORE, SOPHIE COCKERHAM
POPPY-JO LUMLEY
HOMELESS/JUNKIES
ABIGAIL PRUDOE, KATIE HESLOP
NAOMI STEAD, CHARLOTTE WALLIS
KIRSTEN MOORE, KAT ORMONDROYD
SADIE WILD, KATIE MATTHEWS
SOPHIE COCKERHAM, IMOGEN HEY
JESS PASSANT, LUCY HESLOP
POPPY-JO LUMLEY, KATIE WILKINSON
KATIE SEDDON, NOEL NOBLETT
DAVID BROWN,
MATTHEW BICKERTON, TIM MATHEWSON
MICHAEL HUNTER, CLEM ABBOTT
TOM PINDER, DANIEL WILLIAMS
JONNY CHANDLER, ROB PINDER
JOE TOWERS, MATTHEW WALKER

Awards Night

Rent cast list coming soon!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone interested in this?

LEEDS CIVIC ARTS GUILD AWARDS EVENING
SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2009
Do you sing, dance or act?
Do you play a musical instrument?
Are you a magician, a comedian or a juggler?
Do you have any other hidden talents?
Are you a soloist, a duo, a trio or a group?
Would you like to take part in “THE GUILD’S
GOT TALENT” at the Awards Evening?
Contact us ASAP with your details
Phone – (Bryan) 2522514 ; Jan (2298170)
Email – chair@lcag.org.uk or
vice-chair@lcag.org.uk

COAL FACE

13 years after their fantastic success with the World Theatrical premiere of Pit Stop, a musical based on the Yorkshire mining community, St Mary’s Youth Theatre are again about to perform the World Premiere of Coal Face, a one act play by a local young writer called Gareth Durasow. Set against the austere backdrop of the 1940s mining industry, Coal Face is a bleakly comic tale about what happens when “the youth of today” meet the youth of yesteryear.
The war has been won and now Tommy must come to terms with his new life in Garforth; a life that has bid farewell to schoolyard games and is about to see him join the men of iron on the road to Ledston Luck. But for Tommy, the biggest problem isn’t that he’s not from round ‘ere. It’s that he’s from the future!
When Garforth Arts Community Director Dave Evans asked SMYT director Steve Archdale if there was anything they could do for the group Steve suggested the commissioning of a new play based on Garforth’s history. Gareth Durasow was then taken on board to research and write a play for them. Meeting Garforth people he gleamed stories and useful titbits of local folklore appertaining to the post-war mining communities in this area. Using the information he then set about writing a play suitable for the young members of SMYT to perform.

The play will be opening the Garforth Arts Festival on Tuesday 30th June at Garforth Community College. Ticket prices are £5 & £4 concessions and are on sale at Garforth Bookshop, Main Street Garforth.

RENT-SCHOOL EDITION

St Mary's Youth Theatre are searching for young men aged between 14 and 18yrs old to take part in their November show at the carriageworks theatre in Leeds. The company will be performing the school edition of the rock musical RENT. Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. AIDS and both its physical and emotional complications pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom, and Angel; Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble; Benjamin has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends; and Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general, always behind the camera recording the events but never playing a part.
This adaptation has been carefully done, working with the Larson estate to retain the dramatic intent of the groundbreaking rock musical, and consists of minimal changes to language to make it possible for young people to perform this piece. Anyone interested should call director Steve Archdale on 07889 440516 or email steve.archdale@btinternet.com

ST MARY'S YOUTH THEATRE's production of Disney HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL ON STAGE

TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE!

GARFORTH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Wednesday 29th April—Friday 1st May 7.15pm
TICKETS £5 (£4 concessions)
AVAILABLE FROM THE
GARFORTH BOOKSHOP, MAIN STREET, GARFORTH
OR ANY SMYT MEMBER.