Inspiring trips to start academic year
Lower School pupils got the chance to experience a big stage performance as part of an ongoing learning initiative.
The Year 7 contingent travelled to the Palace Theatre in Manchester on Wednesday, September 19, which is one of many such excursions organised throughout the academic year by passionate English, Music and Drama staff at the school.
Winner of 85 international awards, including 16 for Best Musical, the Royal Shakespeare Company's touring production of Matilda the Musical has been described as “a superb depiction” of the iconic Roald Dahl novel.
With book by Dennis Kelly, original songs by Tim Minchin and direction by Matthew Warchus, Matilda The Musical is the story of the extraordinary little girl.
A large number of Drama pupils got the chance to improve their learning thanks to two special trips.
The separate events are part of an ongoing initiative by the school’s thriving department to give each pupil the chance to observe some of the best actors in the country at various plays, musicals and concerts throughout the academic year, and Year 10-12 pupils paid a visit to Theatr Clwyd in Mold on Tuesday, September 11 to take in The Thirty Nine Steps.
The 39 Steps, which played for nine years in London’s West End and is based on the screenplay from Alfred Hitchcock and John Burton, has been described as “a brilliant, fast-moving spoof” and includes legendary scenes such as the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the escape on the Forth Bridge, the first ever theatrical bi-plane crash and a death-defying finale.
This was followed by another theatre trip on Thursday, September 13, which saw a group make the short journey to Venue Cymru in Llandudno to witness The Play That Goes Wrong.
The award-winning comedy was packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring.