THE Launceston Amateur Dramatic Society’s (LADS) youth theatre has triumphed in the LAMDA exams.

All 14 candidates, who were entered by LADS Launceston Youth Theatre (LYT) for the recent London Academy of Music Drama and Art, Group Devising, Grade 4 examinations, have obtained merited passes.

Each of the three groups involved in the examination were successful in this first time venture for LYT.

Successful candidates will receive a certificate to show their success and the parent group, LYT, has certificates, which they can frame and hang on the walls of the Green Room, LADS home, to celebrate the passing of the examinations.

Grade 4 is a high grade to achieve for the age range of the group members, with the youngest being ten years old and the oldest being 16.

‘Group devising’ is an examination in which groups of young people devise and perform a play, which must last at least 12 minutes, using as their title ‘An Unusual Situation’.

The members of LYT started work on their examination pieces in March and worked on them until the examinations, held in Plymouth on Tuesday, June 19.

Launceston Youth Theatre meet every Saturday morning during term time in the St John Ambulance Rooms in Launceston.

Totally supported by LADS, the fees are kept deliberately low to ensure all who want to take part may do so, and if parents or family are LADS members, they get high quality drama sessions, full of excitement and fun.

The successful candidates are; Grace Andrews, Paige Barnes, Jasmine Bradley, Holly Childs, Alex Ilsley, Dylan Isidro-Lucking, Emily Nolan, James Sanders, Richard Stokes, Lucy Shears, Leah Tucker, Sienna Wait, Tegan Wendon and Ben Willmott. Congratulations were extended to each and every one of them.