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Tickets for the much awaited Shakespeare 4 Kidz musical "Romeo & Juliet" go on sale on Wednesday 3 June at the Piazza from 11am-2pm and thereafter at Blands Travel Services, Market Lane.
There's only ONE public performance on Thursday 18 June and we know it's going to sell out.
Please buy early to avoid disappointment!
S4K's ROMEO AND JULIET plays a week of shows at the John Mackintosh Hall in Gibraltar from Tuesday 16 - Friday 19 June.
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 A song by S4K writers Julian Chenery and Matt Gimblett has been shortlisted for the final of the The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2009 and The Stiles and Drewe Best Song of 2009 Award.
The competition, organised by the Stephen Sondheim Society in association with Mercury Musical Developments takes place at the Playhouse Theatre in London on Sunday 31 May 2009.
Musical theatre students from UK performing arts courses will perform one Sondheim song and one new song by writers from Mercury Musical Developments in a competition to be named best performer and to win The Stanley Salver and prize of £1,000 plus a part in the charity gala Broadway to West End - By Special Arrangement at the London Palladium, produced by Richard Douglas Productions. The new song writers will compete to win The Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Award of £500 The Stephen Sondheim Society gratefully acknowledges the support of The Mackintosh Foundation.
The singing competition will be judged by David Babani, Richard Balcombe, Kim Criswell, Stuart Piper and Edward Seckerson and the song by George Stiles and Antony Drewe.
Tickets for the event are £19.00 all seats, £11.00 students (with NUS card) (includes £1 theatre levy) Book in person at the theatre Book online www.theambassadors.com Book by phone 0870 0606631
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Shakespeare as you like it...
BY LES HORTON, Posted on » Thursday, May 14, 2009
Anyone who studied Shakespeare at school will tell you that his work is not the easiest to understand. It is valued because of the richness of its language, which is English, but not as we know it today.
Hence, most people suffer it at school, maybe even see a play or two performed, but it rarely makes it to the bookshelves for consumption at home.
There have been various attempts over the years to take Shakespeare to the masses, including rewriting his prose into modern-day language, much to the angst of scholars and purists.
They have argued that there is no point in giving the masses such a simplified version of the Bard's work, that it bears little or no resemblance to the real thing.
There is some strength to this argument, but I would answer that if you can get children or even adults interested in classic literature by giving them a palatable taste, they may go on to read the original works - keeping them alive for another generation.
One UK-based production group, Shakespeare 4 Kidz, is committed to taking this heritage to children as young as five, in a manner which they can understand and today it stages its own version of Romeo and Juliet in Bahrain, with two shows at the Salman Cultural Centre, Gudaibiya.
The shows take place at 11.30am and 6.30pm, with tickets at BD12 for children and BD15 for adults - which is expensive, but if you can stretch to it, it may well be worth it.
I have to admit to being roasted more than once for falling asleep during Shakespeare lessons at Kingston Secondary Modern Boys School, Stafford, in my native England, where most of the 'literature' was scrawled on the lavatory walls.
But my interest was finally awakened by the magic of seeing two of his plays - Twelfth Night and Coriolanus, performed live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, by the river in Stratford-upon-Avon.
I saw Twelfth Night exactly 40 years ago and it featured a very young (now Dame) Judi Dench, whose delicious legs set my 14-year-old heart pumping.
Hardly an academic interest but, as the man himself would say - as you like it!
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Click here to see the original article online at the Gulf Daily News website
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The Gulf and Middle East section of the Romeo and Juliet international tour has ended with two shows at the Salman Cultural Center in Bahrain. The tour has been another outstanding success for S4K, including our first visit to Damascus, and what we are told has been one of the first visits ever by a major British Shakespeare company.
The Romeo company now look forward to a week of shows at the John Mackintosh Hall in Gibraltar from Tuesday 16 - Friday 19 June.
The visit has been arranged by Cynthia Eagle, the Director of Culture, on behalf of the Gibraltar government and follows S4K’s visit last year with The Tempest. The Gibraltar government sponsorship mean 3000 pupils aged five and upwards will be given free tickets and a programme for the show. The shows are also sponsored by The Bonita Trust (www.bonitatrust.org); and due to public demand there will be a limited number of tickets on sale to the public, as last year so many people expressed a desire to see the show, explained promoter Ros Astengo.
“Gibraltar follows the UK school curriculum so therefore Shakespeare is a vital part of their English studies,” she added. “We are very excited about S4K coming out again.”
Performances are daily from Tuesday 16 - Thursday 18 June at 9.00am and 1.30pm and on Friday 19 June at 9.00am and 8.00pm.
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