Busy schedule of events planned
THERE is a busy programme of performance at this year's Sheffield Children's Festival with drama, musicals and dance shows being staged at city centre venues over the next two weeks.
At the Library Theatre tonight (Thursday) children from Lowfield Primary School are presenting Twelfth Night using Shakespeare's text interspersed with dance. Earlier in the day they will be performing a preview to bring down the curtain on the 24 Hour Shakespeare marathon in a marquee outside the Town Hall.
BTec Drama students at Norton College have devised their own show, Being a Grown-Up: What Kids Aren't Told About Life, Love and the Pursuit of Lunch, a series of sketches on a self-explanatory theme. it is at the Library Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
Singing and dancing their way down the Yellow Brick Road will be around 40 youngsters from Reach For the Stage Musical Theatre School. With an age range from eight to 16 years the group have been honing their skills on Saturday afternoons in a church hall on Ecclesall Road. For some of the cast performances of The Wizard of Oz on Friday and Saturday at the Montgomery Theatre will be their first time on stage whilst some of the older members have trod the boards before with a Musical Spectacular at the Library Theatre last December.
There's more Shakespeare at the Library Theare on Monday when Fir Vale student present a contemporary interpretation of Romeo and Juliet at the Montgomery Theatre next week.
St Marie's Catholic Primary School presents Nick Perrin's time-travelling history play, The Keymaster, on Monday, and the following night Arbourthorne Community Primary School come up with Wardrobe of Time 2: The Curse of Antony and Cleopatra, written by their teacher, Steve Eddison.
Another home-made production is Highways and Heartaches, a highway robbery romp, maintaining the tradition at Coit Primary School of an end-of-year show especially written by teacher Norman West. It is at the Memorial Hall on Tuesday.
High Storrs School will be taking over the main stage of Sheffield City Hall for a performance of The Wiz on Friday, July 3. The new production features a flower-power Munchkinland, a designer-chic Emerald City and a futuristic Oz in a show with exciting song and dance numbers, a large cast, colourful costumes and a happy-ever-after ending.
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