Earlier this week, a group of our excited A Level English pupils went to Stratford-upon-Avon to watch the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of ‘The Tempest’.
Our A3 (Year 12) and IB pupils enjoyed a Royal Shakespeare Company-led workshop at the Clore Centre and then watched the sell-out production.
As one of our A Level set texts, this was an ideal opportunity to broaden pupils’ horizons with live theatre and also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them to experience the central role of Prospero played by globally-acclaimed actor, Sir Kenneth Branagh.
Maya T in A3 commented: “It was an amazing performance; the set design was unreal and the introduction to the play was set on a ship with a shaking stage and real sail. During the interval, we went to get ice cream where we bumped into (such a surprise!) Boris Johnson, who told us he was writing a book on Shakespeare.”
