Shakespeare Schools Festival To Start Today
The Bermuda Shakespeare Schools Festival [BSSF] will be held from October 14th to October 16th at the Berkeley Institute from 7 pm.
The Festival is a multi-day event focusing on youth, culture and creativity where six of the Island’s schools will perform abridged versions of the playwright’s masterpieces.
The participating schools and their selected plays are:
Monday [Oct 14]
- Saltus Grammar School – Much Ado About Nothing
- CedarBridge Academy – Julius Caesar
Tuesday [Oct 15]
- The Bermuda High School – Cymbeline
- The Berkeley Institute – Othello
Wednesday [Oct 16]
- Somersfield Academy – Romeo and Juliet
- Warwick Academy – Hamlet
The Festival, which complements the GCSE programme, involves up to 150 students, ages 14-18. Each play is 30-45mins in length with two schools performing each night.
The BSSF provides the students with a professional setting in which to perform, as well as encouraging further study in the dramatic arts. The caliber of performance is such that this year the Ministry of Education asked BSSF to coordinate a drama group to perform in The Caribbean Secondary Schools Drama Festival to be held in Barbados, December 8-15th, 2013.
In Barbados a cast representing students from six of Bermuda’s high schools [public and private] will perform Kim Dismont Robinson’s play, Emancipation: A Love Story, a docu-drama about Bermuda’s History, directed by Alan Smith.
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