In preparation for this year’s Sacred Heart College production, the Mary Moloney Theatre at the college has been transformed into a mystical and mythical dream.
The Dream is a ‘hybrid’ production, with many students working in the show in drama classes as well as after school, both on stage and behind the scenes.
The Dream is a reimagining of Shakespeare’s arguably most well-loved play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
More than 50 students and staff have been hard at work this term, working out how to present a Shakespeare play, in a very short amount of time.
Year nine and year 11 drama classes have been essential to this process, as the students have taken on the bulk of the character parts and have been spending their class time developing their interpretation of Shakespeare, for a modern audience.
Students from year seven to 10 are also involved as characters, dancers and musicians.
“One of the exciting things about staging Shakespeare, is taking a play that was written 500 years ago and making it somehow ‘fresh’ for a modern audience,” said director Ben Gallagher.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is about a pair of lovers who flee an arranged marriage and escape to the forest, ending up getting caught in a power struggle between the king and queen of the fairies.
The Dream will be on stage in the Mary Moloney Theatre at Sacred Heart College, Kyneton, for three performances from Thursday to Saturday, September 1-3.
Bookings can be made through Trybooking – www.trybooking.com/CBBLP
