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Manchester Youth Theatre

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The Manchester Youth Theatre was a youth theatre which operated in Manchester from 1966 until 2003.

Mike Leigh, then a lecturer at the Catholic women teachers training college Sedgley Park, devised and directed two big-cast projects for the Manchester Youth Theatre- Big Basil and Glum Victoria and the Lad with Specs .

Sam Boardman-Jacobs won acclaim for his work on Holocaust and Yiddish drama with the Manchester Youth Theatre.

Alumni

  • Dominic Monaghan
  • Aiden Shaw
  • Steven Pinder
  • Kevin Kennedy
  • David Threlfall
  • Lee Oakes
  • David Bamber
  • Lesley Sharp
  • Phil Rose

    • References

    Manchester Youth Theatre Wikipedia
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