Young Pleasance is dedicated to offering dynamic,excellent and inclusive opportunities for young people in the local community, and takes the holistic approach of teaching all the key processes of staging a show from script-writing to rigging, alongside the performance experience.

In addition to staging large-scale productions, YP offers an ongoing programme of workshops, holiday courses and special performance projects giving children and young people the chance to develop an awareness of their own abilities, and to improve and enhance aptitude, expectations and potential as part of a vibrant, foused and motivated team.

"We have created an Academy for young talent and that reflects our constant goal at the Pleasance of not only providing a platform for new work and up-and-coming acts, but nurturing them through to a stable level of success." Anthony Alderson, Pleasance Director