Monmouth based Mayhem Youth Theatre Group have been celebrating some significant successes only a year after they were formed.

Run completely by volunteer helpers and parents, Mayhem was formed in January 2017, mainly consisting of youngsters aged 11 to 18 who have worked with Mayhem’s founder, Andrew Griffiths, on other musical theatre projects within the town.

Their production of Les Miserables in October 2017 played to full house and to critical acclaim, and was reviewed favourably by the Ross Gazette.

And now it has been recognised by receiving five nominations for the annual Noda Ceremony to be held in Hereford in May 2018.

They have been nominated for Best Youth Production 2018 and for Best Management of Stage and Technical.

There have also been individual nominations for Chris Bashford who came from Leominster to play the leading role of Jean Valjean, and for Monmouth Comprehensive School pupils, Gracie Follows and Josh Morgan, for playing Eponine and Marius respectively.

16 year old Josh Morgan has also received some life changing news, as he has recently discovered that he has successfully fought off hundreds of others throughout the whole country and abroad, to earn one of a very limited number of places to study Musical Theatre at the world famous Brit School sixth form in London.

Mayhem has helped prepare Josh for this extraordinary opportunity at a school that has produced the likes of Adele, Amy Winehouse and the current Spider-Man Tom Holland, and hope that they have been the first step to him performing on a West End stage.