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AYTCO’s drama programme represents a contrasting offer to our young members, and sits alongside our musical theatre productions to provide the widest experience of different performance skills.

Over the years, AYTCO has tackled a very wide variety of different genres. We have produced Shakespeare and other Renaissance theatre, Greek Tragedy, French Existentialist, Victorian Melodrama, 20^th Century classics and a wide range of contemporary youth drama, including numerous plays from the National Theatre’s Connections cycles of specially written plays for young people.

AYTCO have been regular participants and contributors to competitive drama festivals around our region, most notably at Leatherhead and Woking. We have enjoyed very good levels of success in these festivals, and have received many awards and nominations for our productions.

Usually, the months of February and March and the period from the beginning of the September term through to mid-October are dedicated to producing two strong drama seasons. We seek to ensure that every member of AYTCO regardless of age and acting experience will have the opportunity of a decent and challenging speaking role in one of our plays.

We’re proud to say that many young people who have joined us with minimal or even no acting experience have in due course gone on to lead the line in our plays and achieved honours and recognition from drama festival adjudicators and audiences.

During the first 2020 COVID lockdown, AYTCO broke new ground by producing two ‘Radio’ plays, recorded by the members remotely from their own homes, and edited into a coherent production. One of the plays,  Burn by Deborah Gearing, was transmitted on Surrey Hills Community Radio in the summer of 2020, where it received accolades, both for its acting and its production values.