Pupils’ dream is to perform Shakespeare
PRESTBURY Primary School pupils got stuck into Shakespeare at a Primary Drama Festival.
The festival took place at Fallibroome Academy and involved pupils from a number of different primary schools in the Macclesfield area.
Prestbury pupils, led by former Prestbury Primary teacher Claire Beresford Hicks, who now runs the Wassodrama group, separated into three age groups to create a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream before performing the play at the festival.
Year one pupils played the part of cheeky fairies and learned parts of the story, which they told as jigsaw parts, while year two pupils and above worked on a short script of the play, including a mixture of modern and Shakespearean script.
Reception children were cast as ‘learner fairies’ who took part in scenes with Titania and Oberon by parroting what the older children said and all three groups took part in the introduction to the story and the robotic dance.
Year one and reception classes did a fairy dance, and all groups took part in the finale - a rendition of ‘I’ve got no strings to hold me down’, when the Puck character releases the others from fairy control.
All groups were also given the challenge to learn Puck’s soliloquy, ‘If we shadows have offended...’.
Wassodrama founder Claire said: “I was extremely impressed with the youngest members of the group. Naina was the first in all the groups to learn all 16 lines word perfectly and Anvita smashed it the week after- not bad for four and five year olds!”
She also praised Daisy Reay, who played Titania, saying she was ‘very keen to encourage and support the younger children’.
The primary performers were joined by Fallibroome Academy’s year seven drama club.