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Volunteer Stage Crew Opportunities

By Sparky (Youth Arts) on Monday 17th June 2013

Volunteer Stage Crew Opportunities for Oliver Twist!

mhya’s Footlights will be presenting their own unique rework of the Charles Dickens classic ‘Oliver Twist’ this October, and we need your help! With a strong cast of 18 Footlights are looking for a volunteer ‘STAGE CREW’ to help run behind the scenes.

No experience necessary just a passion of the arts and willingness to work as part of a team and commit to ensure the smooth running of the shows! We are looking to recruit people for:

Stage Management, Set design & build, Hair, Make up, Front of House, Sound & Lighting, Marketing & Advertising, Back stage crew and Costume

For more information on dates and specific roles you can contact us in the following ways

Email us youtharts AT merchistounhall.co DOT uk

Tweet us @mhyoutharts

Facebook us www.facebook.com/mhyoutharts

mhya Footlights call for stage crew!

A Weekend of LIVE Theatre presented by mhya’s footlights!

By Sparky (Youth Arts) on Monday 04th March 2013

Anyone for Tennis? Spring is nearly sprung and mhya’s footlights present a weekend full of live theatre at Merchistoun Hall, Horndean. Merchistoun Hall youth arts known as mhya proudly present a lively weekend of theatre the weekend of 16th & 17th March.

On Saturday 16th March footlights presents in association with Samuel French Ltd Neil Simon’s ‘California Suite’ a throughly modern classic that tells the tail of visitors from New York, an Oscar nominated actress preparing for the awards evening, a businessman who awakes to find a prostitute in his bed and the bickering friends who fight and fall out over tennis! Not to be missed!

On Sunday 17th March, footlights presents ‘The Balcony and The Call Centre written by one of the group fifteen year old Callan Riches! Two hilarious tails that can relate to real life from the wedding reception from hell and the call centre where staff morale hits highs and lows with practical jokes and the boss just isn’t amused! These two performance on the Sunday will be followed by a short improvised session of Get off my lines! A footlights favourite!

Performances on both nights start at 7:30pm and tickets are available on the door at £6/5 or in advance by emailing youtharts@merchistounhall.co.uk

mhya Footlights presents Neil Simon’s California Suite

By Sparky (Youth Arts) on Monday 25th February 2013

mhya Footlights presents Neil Simon’s California Suite on Saturday 16th March at 7:30pm.
In Visitor from New York, Hannah Warren is a Manhattan workaholic who flies to Los Angeles to retrieve her teenaged daughter Jenny after she leaves home to live with her successful screenwriter father William. The bickering divorced couple is forced to decide what living arrangements are best for the girl.

Conservative middle-aged businessman Marvin Michaels is the Visitor from Philadelphia, who awakens to discover a prostitute named Bunny unconscious in his bed after consuming a bottle of vodka. With his wife Millie on her way up to the suite, he must find a way to conceal all traces of his uncharacteristic indiscretion.

The Visitors from London are British actress Diana Nichols, a first-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and her husband Sidney, a once-closeted antique dealer who increasingly has become indiscreet about his sexual orientation. The Oscar is an honor that could jumpstart her faltering career, although Diana knows she doesn’t have a chance of winning. She is in deep denial about the true nature of her marriage of convenience, and as she prepares for her moment in the spotlight, her mood fluctuates from hope to panic to despair.

The Visitors from Chicago are two affluent couples who are best friends. Stu Franklyn and his wife Gert and Mort Hollender and his wife Beth are taking a much-needed vacation together. Things begin to unravel quickly when Beth is hurt during a mixed doubles tennis match and Mort accuses Stu of having caused her injury by lobbing the ball.

A fantastic show which will include a short interval where the bar will open for refreshments. Tickets are priced at £6 or £5 cons available on the door in in advance by contacting

Event Date(s)

This event takes place between the following dates(s) : Saturday 16th March 2013

Event Time

This event starts at 7:30 PM and finishes at 10:00 PM.

Location Details

Merchistoun Hall

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mhya foosteps’ hotel of horrors went down a storm!

By Sparky (Youth Arts) on Monday 25th February 2013

hotel of horrors

mhya’s footsteps performed their very own piece of devised theatre on Sunday 24th February – the hotel of horrors! And it went down a storm! The very creepy tail of the hotel that had 100 floors and on some of which you had to face your fears! From poisoned cookies to a cleaner that couldn’t stand cleaning but ended up loving her feather duster! You could not have hoped for a better chilling performance on a chilly February evening! They all worked really hard from September through to February to create every single aspect of this production from story lines to lighting and sound effects to henry hoover!

footsteps is for ages 5yrs+ as part of the mhya theatre programme meeting on Sunday afternoons from 4:00pm-6:00pm. For more information contact youtharts AT merchistounhall.co DOT ukor you can find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/mhyoutharts hotel of horrrs

Information Day on activities for Children with Disabilities

By Sparky (Youth Arts) on Friday 11th January 2013

Information Day and Activities
11am – 2pm, Saturday 9th Feb 2013

For all parents/carers of children & young people with additional needs,
an event to find out what Short Breaks are available for the holidays and outside school in East Hampshire.
Come and meet the providers who will advise you on what is available to suit the needs of your child.
Craft activities to entertain the children while you chat!
In partnership with Hampshire County Council, Parent Voice , East Hampshire Disability Forum, Short Break and Buddy providers and Horndean Community Association.
All children are parents/carers responsibility throughout the event
If you would like more information please contact:
East Hants

Gail Bedding - gailbedding AT roseroad DOT org
Sally Barnett - sallybarnett AT roseroad DOT org

Havant

Kris Mayer -krismayer AT roseroad DOT org
Rishi Ghosh – rishighosh AT roseroad DOT org

www.merchistounhall.co.uk