We have now closed the doors at Stagedoor HQ for the summer holidays, and are enjoying a well-deserved rest after a phenomenal first year. The last week of term saw us visiting two local primary schools - Warden Hill and Greatfield Park, to perform an abridged version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Our first port [...]
On Monday of this week, we performed to a sell-out audience in the Everyman studio, for the final time this year. The show - If Music Be The Food Of Love, was a celebration of Shakespeare, and included excerpts from some of his best known and best loved plays, as well as songs inspired by [...]
Our main focus this week has been preparation and rehearsal for our show - If Music Be The Food of Love, which will be taking to the stage in the Everyman Studio on Monday 2nd July. However, on Friday, we took a break from rehearsals to participate in a workshop with a theatre company called [...]
Our next show at the Everyman is a cabaret style evening of Shakespeare and song - If Music Be The Food Of Love, on Monday 2nd July. We'll be in the Everyman Studio at 7.45pm, and tickets are available from the Everyman Box Office now!
I can hardly believe we're nearly at the end of the academic year. Term 5 was definitely the most intense yet, and, unusually for the Stagedoor set up, the term that felt most like "school", because of the two rigorous external assessments the students had to complete. Not quite exams, but certainly with as much [...]
Since Term 5 started, we've been on countdown to May 11th as this was the date that marked an important turning point. The last two weeks have involved the completion of two of the external units necessary for our students to complete their Level 3 BTEC - Investigating Practitioners' Work, and Group Performance Workshop. Unlike [...]
We've had another busy week at Stagedoor Learning. Our main focus for the week was the devised performances students have created for Unit 3 of their BTEC, which is the Group Performance Workshop unit. Students have had to devise an original piece based on a Salvador Dali painting, and have created clever, sophisticated performances which [...]
It was lovely to see everyone back after the Easter break. Term 5 is going to be very busy for a few weeks, and then we'll be able to relax a little and enjoy the rest of the summer term. Sometimes, it's easy to forget that we're doing a course equivalent to 3 A Levels, [...]
The highlight of this week was Pilot Theatre's production of Brighton Rock at The Everyman. We were treated to a workshop with assistant director Oli O'Shea, who later tweeted "Sharing rehearsal approaches and exercises today with brilliant BTEC students @Everymanchelt before they watch the matinee of #BrightonRock". The group then watched the play, which student [...]
The highlight of this week was taking our National Theatre Connections play The Changing Room on tour! As part of the NT Connections project, each group gets to transfer its play to a different venue - regional theatres which host their own mini Connections festivals. We were partnered with The Egg, which is part of [...]
