Shakespeare Festival 2007
After
successfully working
with the Shakespeare Schools' Festival for the past three years, drama pupils
from Our Lady's Grammar School, Newry, are keen to take their involvement in
this worthwhile project further. As a result they have set up their own youth
theatre company with Lower Sixth students Aveen Stewart (left) and Aisling
Bannon at the helm.
Aveen is the company director and Aisling, the company producer. Both girls have been invited, along with their drama teacher and company mentor Mrs Curley, to Edinburgh on 4 and 5 October, where they will meet and work with professionals from the Shakespeare Festival. They will be taken through the process of the Youth Festival and offered practical work on leadership and directing skills, as well as exercises and approaches that can be used in rehearsal.
A ready cast of actors await the girls on their return to Our Lady's to start rehearsing their chosen play, which will be performed in a Northern Irish theatre in March 2008. Following this, the group will perform in Liverpool in July, along with other youth groups from across the UK as part of the programme for Liverpool's European Capital of Culture 2008 celebrations.
