FROM THE PRIMARY TIMES - NORFOLK

Get ready to rock with Romeo

Children’s favourites Shakespeare 4 Kidz are back.  The company launches its new musical mini tour of Romeo and Juliet in January and will be visiting one of its own favourite venues at King’s Lynn Corn Exchange. When it comes to making the Bard’s plays appealing to children Shakespeare 4 Kidz is in a class of its own.

S4K has introduced millions of young people to the magical world of Shakespeare over the last 15 years with its modern musical adaptations of not only Romeo and Juliet but also Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Tempest and even Hamlet.

Kids love them because they can understand them. The complicated stories and complex text are simplified by the use of modern language linking together the most famous and best-loved lines. And there are catchy songs and dances too.

Children as young as eight can enjoy the mini tour of Romeo and Juliet. And adults who have been put off Shakespeare because they remember boring lessons at school will be amazed at how it shakes up Shakespeare to tell the tale clearly and concisely. Totally against prohibitive restoration fees, booking fees and other ways of taxing child tickets, the company is pledging to keep schoolchild ticket prices to £10.

The company also offers school drama workshops on all of its titles plus play-in-a-day cross curricular school experiences based on Macbeth (Mini Macbeth) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Day Dream). S4K’s Romeo and Juliet is at the Corn Exchange in King’s Lynn on Wednesday 25th January with performances at 10.30am and 1.30pm. For more details call 01553 764864 or go to www.shakespeare4kidz.com

See this article on the Primary Times - Norfolk website