Shakespeare School Festival
Shakespeare School Festival
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Shakespeare Schools Foundation (Coram SSF). is a cultural education charity that gives young people across the UK the confidence to succeed in life by performing the works of the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare on a professional stage in what is now seen as the world's largest youth Drama festival and Curwen Primary School has been honoured to annually work with this incredible charity. Each year, Mrs Clements trains and directs 25-30 budding performers from UKS2; verses them into the art of the Shakespearian language and collaboratively devises a Shakespearean play / sonnets - normally with a Curwen twist.
Sonnet 29.MOV2022 - Hip Hop Shakespeare
This year, we decided to take Curwen on an different path and incorporate Hip Hop beat alongside Shakespeare's infamous iambic pentameter. We took inspiration from The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company (headed by Akala) and created a music video for one of William Shakespeare's sonnets.
2020 - Macbeth on Film
Due to the pandemic, Curwen Primary school embarked on performing a familiar Shakespeare play using the medium of film instead of stage. Mr Ashcroft and Miss Carter, along with years 5 and 6 recreated the world of Macbeth inside the school grounds. Along with social distancing and class bubbles to contend with, we can all agree they did a fantastic job!
Macbeth final edit.mp4IMG_1835.MOV2018 - Macbeth on Stage
The 2018 Curwen cast members performed our rendition of Shakespeare;'s most imfamous play: Macbeth. We were lucky enough to perform this play at Stratford Circus Theatre, live to a paying audience in an evening of celebrating Shakespeare.
Directed by Mrs Clements and Miss Carter, our theme was heavily influenced by WW2: blackouts, sirens, candles, old radios and soldiers.
Curwen Primary School are so proud of the hard work and professional commitment brought by all the cast in this fabulous production,
2018 Theatre Review
Along with the nerves of performing Shakespeare to a live audience in a professional theatre, the cast was also subject to theatre reviewers who wrote about our cast's onstage contribution on the night.
It is positively clear that we received a rave review from the reviewers - please see the copy of the review to your left.
Mrs Clements's want to congratulate all that were involved into making this such production such a huge success!
Curwen School Macbeth 6.11.18 and 8.1118.pdfIMG_0943.MOV2016 - Midsummer Night's Dream
A blast from the past with Curwen's Shakespearean production of "A Midsummer's Night Dream" peformed at Stratford Circus theatre - directed by Mrs Clements and Mr Drayton,
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