Chrysalis Festival Set to Open at Traverse Theatre

With just one month to go, the four theatre groups chosen for the inaugural Chrysalis festival are gearing up for two days of dynamic theatre. Tickets are on sale and selling well for Chrysalis, boosted by the popular Festival Pass options available to see anything from one to all four performances on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 November 2015 in Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. Check out photos below!

Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop MSP will open the first Chrysalis festival on Friday 6 November, marking the start of two days of a selection of the best young theatre and new writing in the UK. Theatre groups from Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester will perform their own work: addressing issues as diverse as contemporary cultural obsessions, societal attitudes towards sex and providing a rare insight to modern urban life.

Guy Hollands, one of the directors of Citizens Young Co.'s Southside Stories, says, "We are delighted to have been invited to take part in the Chrysalis Festival. Southside Stories is the result of a rewarding learning experience for the Young Co., producing their first verbatim production and writing and performing their own original music. To perform this piece using the words of people from all walks of life in Govanhill at the Chrysalis Festival is a fantastic way for us to share some of the experiences of this diverse community with a wider audience beyond Glasgow."

The two days of performances by the four theatre groups, part of the national Call to Create, is complemented by a programme of talks and events with invited speakers, looking at the position of youth theatre in an international context and the profile of performance by young people in the media. Tickets for individual Chrysalis performances and ticket packages are now on sale via the Traverse Theatre website www.traverse.co.uk or the Traverse Box Office on 0131 228 1404.

Chrysalis is a new theatre festival and the only platform of its kind in Scotland for ambitious and provocative performance by young theatre-makers. Four selected shows will each be performed twice over the two days of the festival: Friday 6 and Saturday 7 November 2015 in Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. An innovation from Youth Theatre Arts Scotland, Chrysalis aims to attract new audiences to youth theatre arts, inspire Scotland's youth arts sector and enhance public perception of creative work by young people.

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