London calling for teen actors

Budding actors will be taking to the London stage next week after being selected to showcase their talents at a prestigious arts event.

- JUDITH TONNER

Hamilton District Youth Theatre is one of just 10 groups from across the UK to be invited to perform at the National Theatre's Connections festival, celebrating its 30th anniversary and marking the reopening of its Dorfman Theatre space after six months of upgrading and refurbishment work.

Members will perform The Company of Trees in the capital on June 25, after being selected from the hundreds of youth theatre companies taking part in this year’s nationwide programme which sees participants take on all kinds of theatre roles both onstage and behind the scenes.

Hamilton District Youth Theatre marked its 35th anniversary last year, described as “over three decades of entertaining audiences and nurturing young talent across Hamilton and Lanarkshire”.