If you like to sing and act, the Garsington Opera Youth Company could be for you! Give it a try at our workshop audition. No experience is needed, and nothing needs to be prepared. Music will be taught in the session to the group and places in the Youth Company will be awarded based on potential rather than polish! All spots in the Youth Company are fully-funded by our donors and trusts, so participation is completely free for everyone.
Members of the Youth Company are given the opportunity to achieve their Arts Award (Explore or Bronze) during the production period.
To sign up for the workshop audition, please visit: https://forms.office.com/e/DhfpX7NYNx
Our 2025 Youth Company production, UpRooted, was commissioned by Garsington Opera. It is written by Hannah Conway (composer) and Hazel Gould (librettist).
Synopsis
There are over 150,000 children experiencing homelessness in the UK today. UpRooted tells the story of one child just like them.
Brock is being evicted. The house is being knocked down to make way for a brand-new development. Grace, Brock’s mum, has searched for a new place to rent, but there isn’t anything available.
When it becomes clear that there is no suitable housing for Grace and Brock, they are placed in a tiny room in a B&B an hour’s bus journey away. It’s hard to get to school on time, in the right uniform, with all the homework done, leading Brock to get into a lot of trouble. Anyone with 5 detentions will be banned from the upcoming Year 7 camp, which Grace has managed to scrape together a deposit for Brock to attend.
Up at Brock’s old house, the new development has had to be put on hold: a badger sett (den) has been found and it’s illegal to unsettle one. Brock is visited by the Badgers in dreams and visions, and begins to believe that the badgers are better cared for than human children.
Brock begins to wonder if life would be better underground…
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