A quick count up shows that during the last 10 months we’ve worked with approximately 1000 children ranging in age from 4 – 16.

We’ve covered the country from Merthyr Tydfil to Peterborough, Southampton to Yorkshire and all sorts of places in between!

In the afternoon we travelled on to Greece for an introduction to A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.

There’s something magical about hearing a child speak Puck’s words at the end of the play.

Standing on a stage and speaking out loud to over 150 adults, is a pretty daunting task, especially when you are only 8 or 9.

Last week we went from Verona to Athens back to Italy and finally to Scotland!
“Woodpecker seasoned with pepper”. I think there’s a tongue twister in there somewhere!

So, here at FINDING THE WILL, we have a policy of Gender Blind Casting

the special guest was Michael Rosen (our Patron), so it was fitting that we were there too.
The big voices were still big, the little voices were a little louder but the church holds 800 people! Again, Mr Shakespeare (who was 459 of course last Sunday) has helped children from 7- 15 to come out of their shells.

The Diary entry of Macbeth on the night he killed King Duncan, as imagined by one pupil in Year 6.
King Duncan set us off with his desire to ‘terminate’ the Thane of Cawdor.
Some of the teachers became actors – an extra thrill for the students watching the staff fall in and out of love at the squeeze of a purple flower!

Why did the cow cross the road?
Why does drama matter?
So the real reason why the cow crossed the road – apart from to get to the udder side (see what I did there?) was……

FINDING THE WILL has kicked off the year with a Dream of a Week literally!
If anyone is familiar with THE DREAM and is wondering how they have previously missed the integral roles of the Officers, let me explain.
the incredible KS2 actors, all 137 of them – you were a dream to work with so take another bow!