In October 2003, I joined a company known as Action Transport theatre. The first session was on how to write monologues effectively. It really was amazing how many young people turned up to what could have been seen as schooling away from school. By October of 2004 the monologues we had written had been merged together and they formed a play, the poster for which is below.
	My friends who worked on the play and I were also performers; I was known as Lynn, my friend Lucy Hardman was Min, Lydia Gibson was Sandra and Jenny Mills was Kizzy, who ‘died’ a year before the play was set and appeared in ghost form throughout. We worked with professional actors and writers and was therefore a wonderful experience. We did all this through a company called Action Transport Theatre which specialises in giving young people access to all aspects of theatre: directing, writing, producing, designing and acting.
I am currently working with action transport again on two projects; I have become a member of the wring company in which we are encouraged to develop our writing skills and construct further plays and also I am working with the Youth Theatre group as a director on an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel ‘Kidnapped’. Action Transport also runs various other activities for young people such as film making and other writing workshops. It is also a registered charity and receives funding from major companies with local branches such as Shell to allow them to continue with their work. Is there anything similar in your country? Do young people get involved in theatre?

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