PEOPLE who have shaped the history of East Oxford’s Pegasus Theatre joined those who are helping to decide its future at a grand reunion.

The theatre in Magdalen Road is currently in the final stages of a major redevelopment, so the reunion took place at Oxford Town Hall.

It is the third time the theatre, home of Oxford Youth Theatre, has held a reunion, with the original aim being to get as many people together associated with the place before bulldozers moved in to create the new Pegasus.

After the plans were put back a year, the reunion was held anyway – and has become an annual event.

Nomi Everall, the theatre’s technical youth arts worker, was among those who attended Saturday’s event.

She said: “It was great, we had a really good time. There was a good range of people from all across the decades.”

Miss Everall, who also runs the Oxford Youth Theatre production company, has been involved in the theatre since 2003, when she joined as a technical apprentice.

The production company, formed of older youth theatre members, designed an exhibition about the history of the Pegasus, called Taking Flight, and the reunion took place against the backdrop of the exhibition, which is on show at the Museum of Oxford, next door to the town hall.

Oxford Youth Theatre member Serene Shibli Sexton, 10, from East Oxford, said: “It was really cool, because I got to meet up with all my friends I hadn’t seen since I did the last play.

“I really think the new theatre is going to be good, I haven’t performed in the Pegasus in ages. I’ve been waiting for it to be open and I can’t wait any more.”

Work on the £7.4m project to rebuild the theatre is set to finish in April, with it due to reopen in September.