Castaway Youth Theatre was founded in 1999 to offer an opportunity to young people across the North-West and North Wales to be in a production that would be performed on a professional stage once a year. It would offer young people the chance to work as a team, make new friends and learn new skills.

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Castaway put on several fantastic productions at the Gateway Theatre in Chester from 1999 to 2007 including Bugsy Malone, West Side Story, Oliver! and Copacabana to name a few. Many were nominated for NODA awards.

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Castaway unfortunately had to close when the Gateway Theatre was closed for good and there was no longer a professional stage in Chester where Castaway was based.

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On 17th May, 2017 Chester opened a fantastic new modern theatre: Storyhouse Theatre.

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This meant that once again Chester had a theatre for our young people to perform in and so Castaway Theatre Company was reformed in February 2018 as a small charity. Its aim is to provide an opportunity for young people (aged 9-25 years) across Cheshire, Merseyside, North Wales and beyond to put on an annual musical theatre production to a professional standard in a professional theatre.