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1)    A cast blog from the current tour including those interesting stories that not many people hear about.

2)    The production team take on the ‘Are you shakey on your Shakespeare?’ quiz.

3)    The best post from a fan on our Facebook page by March 31st 2010 will receive signed S4K memorabilia by all the cast and this will be decided by the Facebook S4K team.

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HAVE YOU GOT THE S4K FACTOR?

Thank you for visiting this page to find out about our search for young star to play the SON OF MACDUFF in our forthcoming shows in Dubai.

As in the UK we recruit a local young actor to play the roles of SON OF MACDUFF and the THIRD APPARITION in Act Two of the show. 

We thought it would be a great idea to offer TEN young people (a different actor for each of the TEN shows) the chance to share the stage with our fantastic cast.

THERE ARE FOUR STEPS TO TAKE BEFORE THE AUDITION DAY:

1. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it the S4K production office to REGISTER your interest
   
2. We will email you back to confirm the audition slot
   
3. PREPARE a short SPEECH, POEM or MONOLOGUE (it doesn't have to be a Shakespeare piece!) to recite at the audition
4. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the script from S4K's MACBETH for the scene between LADY MACDUFF and SON OF MACDUFF.
5. CLICK HERE TO SEE the  scene from S4K's MACBETH between LADY MACDUFF and SON OF MACDUFF on our YOUTUBE channel.

THE AUDITION DAY IS SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2010

THE VENUE IS THE DUCTAC, MALL OF THE EMIRATES (in the Kilachand Studio Theatre)

TIME - FROM 10am

1. Arrive at DUCTAC, Mall of the Emirates at your designated TIME SLOT on SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY
2. You will be asked to wait in a Holding Zone until your audition slot time
3. At the audition, you will be asked to recite your prepared speech/poem on stage; you MAY be asked to read part of the scene with LADY MACDUFF as well.
4. BE PREPARED for anything, but most of all HAVE FUN!

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. You will need to be between 140cms and 150 cms tall, and between the ages of 8 and 11
2. You must be available to play the role in the designated performance - and you MUST have full permissions from your school to participate in the show (we hope your school will come along to support you)
3. Your parent or a designated guardian MUST chaperone you throughout the time you are in the theatre on the performance day. S4K operates under strict guidelines with regard Child Performances, a copy of these guidelines will be available at the auditions.

FROM THE NORTH WALES CHRONICLE

MACBETH FOR MINORS COMING TO LLANDUDNO

THE NOTORIOUS Scottish Play Macbeth will be given the modern treatment when Shakespeare 4 Kidz comes to Venue Cymru.

Promising a show full of weird witches and spooky spells to make Harry Potter and his friends look like amateurs, Macbeth will feature bloody battles, gruesome ghosts and even a forest which moves.

And because many theatre folk believe the play to be jinxed lots of celebrities have sent the company good luck wishes, including Stephen Fry, King of the Jungle Joe Pasquale and West End actor Jonathan Pryce, who had his own bad luck stories to tell after playing Macbeth.

He said: “When I played him in Stratford, before the first night Lady Macbeth had an accident and fractured her collar bone. I fell head first down the stairs on stage and for the first time forgot my lines in the middle of a soliloquy. At the Barbican I got stuck in the lift with the three witches and was rescued just in time to make my reappearance.”

The S4K Macbeth has been very well received each of the five times it has toured since its premiere in 2000 and its creator Julian Chenery was confident that the play would be a winner once again.

"The famous curse is something we’ve had our share of in the past," he revealed. "In the autumn of 2000 we had incessant rain for three months which affected all of our get-ins and get-outs; a national fuel strike which made it nigh impossible to move the production around the UK; the actor playing Banquo hit his head on the windscreen of the cast coach; the actor playing King Duncan went down with Bell’s Palsy making half his face freeze and one of the stage crew walked into a door and fractured her skull. Apart from that the show was a huge hit and has remained immensely popular ever since!”

Shakespeare 4 Kidz plays use the most famous lines from the original texts, weave them into modern language, add some songs and dances into the mix and the result is a two hour entertainment which everyone - even the youngest primary kids - can understand.

The whole plot is retained and all the major characters are there too, to tell the blood-soaked story of the murderous Scottish warrior who, egged on by the prophecies of three weird witches and the ambitions of his evil wife, removes every obstacle in his path until he can seize the throne for himself.

Playing the role of Macbeth for the third (and hopefully lucky!) time is Jason Lee Scott, who leads the 14-strong company.

So watch out… something wicked this way comes.

Macbeth will be showing at Venue Cymru in Llandudno on Thursday, February 11 at 10.30am and 1.30pm. For more information or to book tickets contact the Box Office on 01492 872000 or visit the website at www.venuecymru.co.uk

CLICK HERE TO SEE DAVID WADDINGTON'S ORIGINAL ARTICLE ON THE NORTH WALES CHRONICLE WEBSITE

Shakespeare for the young

From the WAKEFIELD EXPRESS

WATCH out – something wicked this way comes. The notoriously bad luck Scottish Play, Macbeth, will get the Shakespeare 4 Kidz treatment at Theatre Royal Wakefield later this month.

Full of weird witches and spooky spells that make Harry Potter and his pals look like amateurs, there are even bloody battles, gruesome ghosts and a moving forest. The S4K Macbeth has been well-received each of the five times it has toured since its premiere in 2000, and creator Julian Chenery is confident the play will be a winner once again.

He said: “The famous curse is something we’ve had our share of in the past. In the autumn of 2000 we had incessant rain for three months which affected all of our get-ins and get-outs; a national fuel strikemade it nigh impossible to move the production around the
UK; the actor playing Banquo hit his head on the windscreen of the cast coach; the actor playing King Duncan went down with Bell’s
palsy making half of his face freeze and one of the stage crew walked into a door and fractured her skull.

“Apart from that the show was a huge hit and has remained immensely popular ever since!”

Shakespeare 4 Kidz plays use the most famous lines from the original texts, weave them into modern language, add some songs and dances into the mix and the result is a two-hour play everyone – even the youngest primary school children – can understand.

The original plot is retained and all the major characters are there too. Macbeth tells the blood-soaked story of the murderous Scottish
warrior who, egged on by the prophecies of three witches and the ambitions of his evil wife, removes every obstacle in his path until he can seize the throne for himself.

Playing title role for the third time is Jason Lee Scott, who leads the 14-strong company. Macbeth is at Wakefield Theatre Royal on Thursday, January 28, at 1.30pm and 7.30pm, and on Friday, January 29, at 10am and 1.30pm.

For tickets, contact the box office on 01924 211311 or visit www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk