Platform 11+ International Festival (2011)
A week of performances, play readings and workshops from countries including Italy and Estonia together with performances from young people in York.
11 – 21 May
What Light by Pilot Theatre & Elsinor Theatre, Milan
A new play by Richard Hurford and Giuditta Mingucci.
20 May
What Goes Up by Manor School
25 May
Performance by Canon Lee School
24 – 25 May Help! by VAT Theatre, Estonia & Budapest Kolibri Theatre
This play tells a story about a 14-year old Estonian boy and a 12-year old Hungarian girl. They meet in an international youth camp in Finland during a cold winter with heavy snow. Together with other young people in the camp they decide to have a snowmobile race. A girl and a boy on one snowmobile get lost in a dark forest. The motor dies. It is a dark and cold night. They find a cottage. They have to survive because there is no help to be expected in this snow storm. It is a story about survival, reconciliation and finding one another.
26 May
Dami by Don Valley School
Hush by Joseph Rowntree School
27 – 28 May
The Paperteller by Elsinor Teatro, Italy
Fantastic stories told with paper, stories about paper, paper that becomes stories in the hands of the actor, the Paperteller.
Help!
A collaboration between VAT Theatre, Estonia and Budapest Kolibri Theatre, and it is part of European theatre project Platform 11+.
Written by Aare Toikka & Peter Horvath
Directed by Margo Teder & Aare Toikka
Designed by Inga Vares
Sound designed by Janoš Novak (Hungary)
Cast:
Marilyn Jurman
Meelis Põdersoo
The Paperteller
By Elsinor Teatro, Milan Italy
Written & performed by Giuditta Mingucci
What Goes Up
Written & performed by Manor School pupils
Canon Lee School
Directed by Julian Ollive
Performed by pupils
Hush
Directed by Shona Lewis
Performed by pupils of Joseph Rowntree School
Don Valley School
Directed by Pete Whelan
Performed by pupils