Delighted to say we are returning to Collingbourne Primary School, Wiltshire in June. After our our first visit to this delightful village school (8 years ago), I wrote this:

“Original Shakespeare text spoken by 4 year olds completely dispels the myth that Shakespeare plays are merely for the intelligent, the elite and the well educated. Which is not to say, of course, that our little Foxes last week were not all of those things – but they were FOUR, FIVE and SIX YEARS OLD! Some might say, (indeed I was heard to say so myself several times) “They are barely alive!” but they stirred the cauldron, chucked in eyes of newts, tongues of dogs and blindworms’ stings with the best of them. There were some early refusals to take part (quickly turned around by some skilful teachers I might add), some nervous tears and some quite little voices but that all faded into insignificance once five year old Macbeth hit the stage with the famous Shakespearean cry of “Hello you hags!” (yes we know it should be “How now, you secret black and midnight hags” but give him a break, he’s only just five). Likewise there were more courageous little Foxes playing witches in the opening scene of Macbeth – what was a real joy was seeing the delight in their eyes when they spoke – so much pride for them, their teachers, their parents and for us.”

We can’t wait to be back!