About Limelight Theatre
Limelight theatre is a children’s/ young people’s theatre group based in Taunton, Somerset. Limelight was founded by Charlotte ("Charlie") Hamilton and Jonathan Leach in 2011. We run weekly classes for ages 7 – 17 and our hugely popular ‘Make a Musical in a Week’ holiday schools also for ages 7 – 17 .
At Limelight we are all about having fun, making friends and building confidence, but also about giving children and teenagers amazing opportunities and experience and giving them real knowledge and training in theatre and performance.
Both Charlie and Jon have lots of experience in many aspects of theatre and have written, performed, directed, choreographed, musically directed, produced and designed many shows both together and separately, including for the Edinburgh Fringe festival.
As well as running classes and workshops (which always culminate in performances in local theatres), we also get involved with lots of other exciting performance opportunities, festivals and competitions.
We have been on two trips to London, where the kids had a chance to work with industry professionals, dance on a West End stage and watch a West End musical (in 2011 we saw ‘Wicked’ and in 2015 we watched ‘Matilda’).
In 2011 a group of our girls came third in a regional Girl Guiding competition performing one of the numbers from our ANNIE holiday school
Also in 2011, we won the Taunton children’s carnival with our LION KING costumes.
We received fantastic adjudications in the group acting category of the Somerset Music and Drama festival in 2013 and 2014.
And have performed at local events such as the Trident Youth and Community Centre’s Christmas Fayre and St Michael’s Church’s annual concert.
We have also just launched ‘Asparagus Scripts’ where we aim to provide fantastic material for performance by schools, youth theatre groups, amateur dramatics societies or anyone else looking for a great show at an affordable price.
