Then let it play on. The infamous words of Orsino from Twelfth Night. I loved that play when we did it at school with Miss Harrington and Charlotte had the chance to direct some Bushloe students in a 30 minute adaptation of it for the record breaking attempt for One night of Shakespeare.

The BBC’s biggest ever off-air drama event, One Night of Shakespeare took place on July 3, 2005 and saw 100 theatres across Britain play host to 400 hugely successful productions of Shakespeare, featuring over 10,000 students.

Working together in the months leading up to the event, the BBC and the Shakespeare Schools Festival gave support and training to the thousands of young actors - and their teachers.

Basically at the theatre I was at there were 4 schools performing four of his most well known plays (A Midsummer nights dream, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night & MacBeth) each in 30 minutes. The kids had to be 16 or under and were directed by teachers or other non-professional peoples. Charlotte directed Bushloe High (her old school) and got her name in the programme which was cool to see! “Miss Charlotte Bond - Director” in an official BBC document. Funky-ness.

It was actually a *really* good show and well worth the £7 entry fee. And I just love watching young kids performing, it’s just better than a professional slick well performed act. I don’t know why but I just love it when it doesn’t go quite to plan. For example in MacBeth there was a fight scene that was to start to music only no music came on cue. So girl was stood “ready to hit” other girl until music started. You just can’t beat that kind of entertainment.

Was all good. Apart from lugging a huge boat around in a tiny car!

ate way too much chocolate and no real food
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