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#PERFORMING ARTSMuch Ado About NothingShakespeare in Schools Festival 2020Every year Cranford Community College has seized the opportunity to bring their fresh take on theclassics of Shakespeare. From gritty portrayals of King Lear to the party town in the Merchant of Venice,the students and directors have reworked life into these productions.Cranford’s keen drama group were excited to start on another Shakespeare production again this year but wewere all faced with a challenge. With restrictions in place for people being close and performing to an audiencewe quickly realised we wouldn’t be able to perform our finished play to a live audience thanks to the ongoingpandemic.Not willing to let our performance go we looked at how we could still capture and share the hard work ofthe company. During lockdown many theatres had tapped the power of film and the Shakespeare in SchoolsFestival agreed this would be a great option and opportunity.Over the autumn term our outstanding company worked hard every Mind, Body and Soul session to build theirvision. We boiled the story of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ down and quickly realised that afarcical love story shared many of the same stories today about gossiping crushes. The students came up withgreat suggestions, transposing soldiers to the football team and rival groups to teachers and staff.Whilst not only constructing a great story and improvising the original dialogue, the group then had to take onthe task of learning to shoot for film. Through a crash course of skills the crew learned all the basics of filmmaking, turning into distinguished film directors and the actors refined their acting for the camera.Shakespeare in Schools Festivalalso worked round restrictions byproviding a useful workshop fromone of their directors over zoom. Eventhough we were many miles away thecompany director could still feel theenergy and creativity of the studentsover the zoom call.We ended up having an exciting termof drama at a difficult time thanksto all the young people’s hard workand adaptability, alongside amazingsupport from Shakespeare in SchoolsFestival.Dan Ramsden (Performing ArtsDrama Department – SSF Director)108
PERFORMING ARTS#Studentsfeedback:As part of theShakespeare projectI was a part of theBeatrice group. Wehad to portray them asa group of mean girlswithin the school. Myfavourite part of theproject was to be ableto learn how to film atdifferent angles. Another time I enjoyed was at the guestworkshop. In the guest workshop we had to play manyinteractive games. Even though this was via zoom, it wasan amazing experience. In this project, I think I overcamethings such as public speaking and was more comfortableand confident in speaking and acting in front of everyone.Ashvika Jaitly (year 8)Throughout the term of doing the Shakespeare play I hadso much fun. I was the camera woman. I found it quiteeasy to get the hang of it and ended up falling in lovewith the concept. I still needed a bit of assistance hereand there but for the most part I was quite independentand I liked having the freedom to use my imaginationthroughout the term. Alongside this, I also learnt manyskills throughout and loved developing my skills more andmore each lesson.The guest workshop was a little bit out of my comfort zoneas I had never really acted in this kind of way, however Ifound it very useful. After the workshop I found it easierto do my job as the camera woman as I could assist the“actors” with what I thought looked nice based on theskills that the practitioner had taught us.Overall my experience was very positive and I enjoyedlearning the new skills each week. The skills whichI learnt will also help me in the future too. It was anamazing opportunity and would recommend to anyonewho gets the chance to take it, it’s a lot of fun!Caitlin Pyatt (year 9)I played the role of Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon. Myfavourite part was when we used to film separately. Ideveloped the skill of improvising as we didn’t have aset script. I can use that now as in future auditions Ican improvise without a script. My favourite part of theworkshop was when we were thinking about what happensnext in the play.Lakshay Mehra (year 8)For this Project, year 8 and 9 students worked together toperform Much Ado About Nothing for the Shakespeare inSchools Festival. It was quite challenging to do so in themiddle of a pandemic yet it still was an enjoyable project.My favourite part was working with my friends to planand film different scenes in the show. I think I developeddifferent skills revolving around acting and coming upwith new ideas. The workshop was very enjoyable andhelpful despite it being done virtually. My favourite partwas working with my friends on each of the differentscenes.Syed Hassan (year 9)I took part in the Shakespeare School Festival; the wholeexperience was amazing and different. Our performancewas based on one of Shakespeare’s famous plays: MuchAdo About Nothing. As a part of this project, my teammatesand I worked on acting out and filming a modern versionof Benedict and his love for Beatrice. My favourite partof this project was when we used the hot seat and askedquestions to really think about what our character’smotive in the play was. I learnt many skills from beingthere such as becoming more confident in myself and hasbeen very helpful to me. The guest workshop was such agreat time, even though our practitioner was teaching usonline. My favourite part was when we played all the fungames and activities.Tashmin Kaur (year 8)I really enjoyed this experience because it has taughtme how to bring out my inner-self and my creativity.My role in this particular project was mainly being thecamera woman. The reason why I really liked this job wasbecause I filmed the people who were in my group and itwas really fun. Being the camerawoman was awesome.My favourite part of the project was when we reviewed ourvideos and discussed them at the end of each lesson. Theskill that I developed was not to be nervous easily becausenow I do not become shy whilst performing. My favouritepart of the workshop was the zoom call with Louie Keenbecause he wanted us to unlock our creative mindset. Ireally liked it because we had fun challenges, scenarios,and little plays with our groups. But all together I reallyliked the Shakespeare Festival because it was so much funand I learnt new things in drama. This is really a once ina lifetime opportunity and I am hoping to do this again inmy life…….. ‘To Be, Or Not to Be? That Is the Question’.Warda Abdillahi (year 9)109
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