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Teens on Stage and Teens Backstage

2024 TOS/TBS production of “Our Town (Multilingual). Photo by Emanuel Lirag

Every summer for over 30 years, Raleigh Little Theatre holds a five-week theatre intensive for ages 14-18 in which high school age students participate in classes and apply their learning to a fully realized production.

Teens on Stage classes may focus on movement, voice and speech, text analysis, devising and advanced acting. Teens Backstage participants are engaged in all areas of technical theatre including set construction, costume construction, prop building, lighting, sound and scenic painting. Teens Backstage also builds the set and many costumes under the supervision of the Technical Director and design team.

The Teens on Stage / Teens Backstage program is designed to further students’ theatrical training by connecting theatre classes to production work and to develop students as theatre artists by connecting theatre to the world and society. The program is a good fit for a variety of theatre experience levels and the RLT education team believes this variety makes the program even stronger. Our goal is that this intensive theatre-making experience serves students’ goals in theatre and the arts and also in developing their communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills that can be used in a variety of ways in their lives.

Admission to Teens on Stage is by audition only and Teens Backstage is by interview.

Our 2025 Teens on Stage/Teens Backstage production is Hadestown: Teen Edition!

 

Program Dates for Teens on Stage and Teens Backstage

The first day of the program is Saturday, June 28. Performances run July 24 – August 3, with strike (deconstruction of the production elements, followed by a final group reflection) after the show on August 3.  Teens on Stage and Teens Backstage meet Monday-Friday until opening night.

Sample daily program schedule:

9:00 – 9:20 am Check In/Announcements

9:20 – 10:55 am TOS Class #1 & TBS Build Time

10:55 – 11:10 am Break

11:10 – 12:45 pm TOS Class #2 & TBS Build Time

12:45 – 1:15 pm Lunch

1:15 – 2:50 pm TOS Rehearsal & TBS Classes/Build Time

2:50 – 3:05 pm Break

3:05 – 4:40 pm TOS Rehearsal & TBS Classes/Build Time

4:40 – 5:00 pm End of Day Reinforcement

About the Show

Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length adaptation of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, modified for performance by teen actors for family audiences.  This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.

HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Corp.   

www.concordtheatricals.com 

About the Characters

Orpheus: Lyre-playing poet, gifted and naive

Eurydice: A runaway, tough and vulnerable

Hades: Compulsive industrialist, boss-king of Hadestown

Persephone: Queen of nature and the season, a lush

Hermes: Charismatic guide and storyteller, mentor to Orpheus

Fates (3): Three Sisters, vicious and delicious, voices in the head

Workers: Spirits of labor and community, a physical choral presence

 

Audition information coming in January 2025!

 

Recent Teens on Stage / Teens Backstage productions include:

Any questions about the program can be directed to Education@nullRaleighLittleTheatre.org.