The Gloucestershire Youth Players

Edward is a local director, actor, teacher and translator. His professional theatre company, the Dramestics, goes into people’s homes and performs in our living spaces. Edward also founded the Gloucestershire Youth Players (GYP), the UK’s only touring youth theatre performing solely Shakespeare. In his spare time, he writes poetry. He has written for friends’ weddings and funerals, but also to express his reactions to the environment, and the important people in his life. He has had a correspondence with his father in poetic form. Some of the poems he performs arose from this familial dynamic; others express a connection with his own experiences. ‘From Age to Age’ is a new project drawing upon all these various influences in his life.