AFTER last autumn’s trip out to the National Railway Museum, the TakeOver Festival is coming home to the newly redeveloped York Theatre Royal with a multitude of shows and activities from Tuesday to Sunday this week.

Launched seven years ago, the festival is run entirely by 12 to 26-year-olds, led in 2016 by artistic director Lizzy Whynes, as was the case for the railway and travel-themed week at the NRM.

The July programme will be built around returning to your roots, focusing on the idea of how “home” intertwines itself within our everyday life, and the shows vary from new writing commissioned exclusively for TakeOver to promenade street performances.

Direct from a sell-out London season and the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe, Seabright Productions present Dinosaur Park (The Jurassic Parody), an epic adventure for all ages on Wednesday in the main house. Join the Park family in the unlikely setting of Lyme Regis Community Centre, as they embark on a journey to a misty past, underscored by the rapturous roar of DIY dinosaurs, in this theatrical spin on Spielberg’s Jurassic Park that celebrates cinematic nostalgia.

Premiered at the LGBT art and culture festival Homotopia, Le Gateau Chocolat: Black takes to the main house stage on Thursday in a cabaret portrait of Nigerian singer Le Gateau Chocolat’s life: his hopes, his fears and his battle with depression, interspersed with songs from Wagner to Whitney Houston.

The Star Seekers is the new show from family theatre troupe The Wardrobe Ensemble that combines the silly and the serious on Thursday at 6pm in The Studio, in conjunction with a schools’ workshop facilitated by TakeOver education associate Charlotte Lade. The show illustrates the majesty of galaxies and the solar system, delving into some of the greatest unanswered questions of the universe.

Next Friday, in the main house, the all-female Theatre Ad Infinitum perform Bucket List, an adventurous exploration of life and death through physical storytelling that illustrates the turbulence of USA-Mexican relations and the global capitalist system through the story of a vengeful woman with terminal cancer on the Mexican border.

TakeOver Festival 2015 hit Coal In The Garden, co-written by Lizzy Whynes and Rab Ferguson, is integrated into a new mixed-media performance, Memories Of Coal, in The Studio next Friday at 1pm.

Curated by TakeOver associate director Ben Cain, this cross-generational community project combines theatrical storytelling, documentary videos from York’s elderly residents and a new, devised performance by York youngsters. Their examination of how perceptions of childhood have changed throughout the years asks what exactly is different for children growing up today?

On The Run’s new one-man show, Tell Me Anything, follows David, aged 15, who loves punk, house parties, poetry and most of all, Kate in a comic love story that considers the social challenges of eating disorders and the trials and tribulations of growing up. Chris Harrisson’s production will be staged in The Studio on Friday at 8pm.

For more information, or to book tickets, visit takeoverfestivalyork.com or yorktheatreroyal.co.uk or call 01904 623568.

All shows start at 7.30pm unless stated otherwise.