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Mental health is a growing issue for young people – what it means, how it affects us and what we can do about it. These new performances take different approaches to understand this wide subject.

The Listeners, a brand new play written by Mojisola Adebayo in collaboration with Samaritans and Pegasus Youth Theatre Company, is set in England in 2017. A massive earthquake has caused a nuclear explosion, tsunami and flood. Teenager Magz is locked in a bedroom communicating through the internet and watching reality TV, reflecting on the recent past and trying to find answers but nothing helps. The planet is all but destroyed. Magz, desperately lonely and in need of intimacy, orders a Listener, from a support website. Will this be the answer to loneliness?

Performed by Pegasus Youth Theatre Companies

Stuck is a new dance performance by Pegasus Youth Dance Company that delves into the mental states of agoraphobia and claustrophobia.

Agoraphobia: a fear of situations from which escape may be difficult or embarrassing.

Claustrophobia: a fear of closed or tight spaces.

Focusing on a series of abstract journeys through the emotions, tensions and effects caused by these conditions and how those might affect the dancers movements.

The Youth Dance Company is also presenting a new piece made in collaboration with leading choreographer Bawren Tavaziva during the Dancin’ Oxford Festival this year. This brand new work will be created in residency with the artist and following its premiere at the Dancin’ Oxford 2012 Festival launch, will be remounted during this week in March.

Designed by Pegasus Youth Theatre Production Company

Suitable for ages 10+

There will be a BSL interpreted performance on Friday 30th March

This is a Dancin Oxford 2012 event

This is a Pegasus 50th birthday event