The awful state of the roads means there will be no Best, Best School of Acting or First Class classes tomorrow (Saturday 3rd March).

For those with LAMDA classes prior to exams on Sunday we have made special arrangements.

On 26th February at The Maltings, two Best groups will present an exciting and contrasting double bill…

Best School of Acting’s Adavanced group will present a collection of moments from the writings of George Bernard Shaw – ‘To Be Shaw’.

Best’s youth theatre group, TheBYTE, will present ‘Dr Hugh & The Creatives’. Imagine a world where creativity is banned! How did it happen? What is it like? What has happened to society? Could this ever be possible? And can our time travelling Doctor save the day? Award-winning youth theatre group TheBYTE explores this strange world in which imagination has been stifled and the future of true civilisation hangs in the balance…

Tickets from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/boxoffice/select/DbbBlEhfFCBZ

Our performances of ‘These Bridges’ as part of the National Theatre Connections programme will be on 26-28 March at The Maltings Arts Theatre.

Tickets from  https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/ovo

A catastrophic flood. The Thames barrier has burst and London is submerged. One year on and rumours abound that there’s electricity, even WIFI, on the other side of the vast, murky river. Time to venture off and find a better life somewhere over there. But the river has its secrets…

Best Theatre Arts’ youth group, TheBYTE, proudly presents These Bridges, This challenging, exciting and innovative theatre experience inspires us to consider what we desire, how we challenge our fears and how we may just survive it all. It’s a brand new play written by Phoebe Eclair-Powell for the National Theatre Connections 2018 programme – a nationwide celebration of new plays for young people.

Best’s youth theatre group TheBYTE, are once more taking part in the National Theatre Connections programme, a national competition that saw us invited to perform on the Dorfman stage at the NT in 2015!

This time it’s a disturbing play about a post-deluge London, littered with bodies, and two teenagers’ journey to find out what lies on the opposite bank of the now swollen Thames. It’s an astonishing play and will feature a huge amount of precision physical theatre by the ensemble.

Tickets are on sale shortly here for the performances at The Maltings Arts Theatre 26-28 March.

Best’s youth theatre group TheBYTE were triumphant with our production of Ali Smith’s ‘Just’ at the Welwyn Youth Drama Festival, winning Best Play and the Adjudcator’s Award in recognition of the outstanding chorus work.

Congratulations to the cast and to director Dawn Hudson on anther amazing success for Best!

Fresh from our success at the Welwyn Youth Drama Festival, our youth theatre group, TheBYTE, has a brilliant opportunity to perform at the Roman Amphitheatre of Verulamium!

In association with our friends at Ovo we’ll be presenting a wonderful piece of Greek comedy – Aristophanes’ ‘The Birds’ on 17 & 18 July at 7.30pm.

Tickets from ticketsource.co.uk/ovo

We are back at Best, First Class, BSA and LAMDA on 16/17 September – BYTE starts 14th September!

See you very soon…

Our summer academies were a huge success – Transylvania Express, The Lost Disco of Atlantis and OzWars were very well attended, enjoyed good weather and were brilliant fun. The shows were all stunning!

This year we tried out a couple of new things too. In our last show – OzWars, we performed a stunning UV sequence using rockets and planets made by the students!

Now it’s time to focus on the Autumn term – we’ll be looking at pantomime techniques in Best, and in First Class it’s ‘The Hums of Pooh!’. Places are very limited and if you are interested in joining, you should book as son as possible.