Fuse: New Theatre for Young People

Our archive contains material relating to Fuse - a company that worked with children and young people in Merseyside

Fuse: New Theatre for Young People was developed from Merseyside Young People’s Theatre Company in 1978 and was rebranded as Fuse in 2006. The company worked with children and young people and toured in schools as well as in community settings.

The Fuse archive

The Fuse archive covers the period from the mid-1980s to 2014. The collection consists of material related to specific productions, such as:

• posters
• flyers
• scripts
• annual reports
• minutes
• material related to work with schools

One of the most well-known productions covered in this archive is the original production of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers, which was commissioned and toured in local schools in the early 1980s as a stage play (it was re-written as a musical after this). Items relating to the production feature in this collection and have been displayed in a number of our exhibitions.

An initial box list of the collection is available here. Please contact the LJMU Archivist for more information.