Hello and welcome to the website for Faith, Hope & Gaffertape - a youth theatre company that does incredible things like putting on full length musicals in under a week.

Participant range in age from 16-25.

Feel up to the challenge?

Beautiful Memories of a Special Week

Theatre Week number 5 (and I am nowhere near the longest running participant); after attending so many you don’t really think it can get any better. How wrong that judgement was. Theatre week 2010 was spectacular.

It was all rather exciting when the 8 of us who had travelled from Dorset, arrived late and were greeted by [...]

Praise for Beauty and the Beast

We’ve been overwhelmed with praise for Beauty and the Beast. Thank you so much to everyone who’s let us know how much you enjoyed the show.

Here are a few of the comments we’ve received:

“Can I just say that it was an amazing performance, the actors, musicians and backstage staff were brilliant, I had 3 children [...]

Show in 4 days? No problem

“This performance was better than some of the West End shows I’ve seen.” This was what the Mayor of Northampton thought of our first performance of Beauty and the Beast last night.

Everything came together in true Gaffertape style as the songs, set, scenes, props, lighting, costumes, music and films created [...]

Video Killed the Shadow Puppet

Shadow puppets are out, films are in. We’ve been doing Theatre Week for a good few years now and the challenge of creating a musical from scratch in a week isn’t really enough. We like to look for additional complexities and more things to schedule in to the already-packed few days. As well as sublime stagecraft, [...]