The Grand in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company present a series of Shakespeare plays for schools aimed at 8 years and over "First Encounters with Shakespeare"
This year's play is The Tempest, and we have been asked to produce a Blackpool Cloak for Prospero to wear during the performances. Children in local primary schools have been very involved in a programme of "Shanties, Shipwrecks and Spells" to discover our local coastal heritage. As a part of the programme we have visited Anchorshome and St Kentigerns Primary schools to lead workshops with the children to make seaside themed embellishments for the cloak.
As usual our members have been very generous with donations of suitable fabrics
The children got quite excited when they saw all the sparkly stash they had to play with.
Many of the children were able to stitch and produced some lovely work, the younger children produced equally effective glued collages.
We were very impressed with the behaviour, enthusiasm and ideas from all the children and we have a huge selection of work to add to the cloak.
Construction is now well under way and the first performance is on the 28th February
Performances at the Grand are on 4th and 5th of February and tickets are available from the box office
The performance is especially tailored for children and is 90 minutes long so if you are free on those dates why not go along to watch what promises to be a fantastic production
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