Sweet Dreams for Oak Lodge

The Dream, a unique and exciting project as deaf and hearing actors work on stage together.
Oak Lodge is a school for deaf students in Wandsworth. Ten year 9 students from Oak Lodge along with ten Year 12 Theatre students from BRIT have been working together and creating a short version of Midsummer Night’s Dream called The Dream.On April 27th they performed their version of Midsummer Nights Dream on stage in the school's Obie theatre to a live audience.
The project was initiated by Leading edge Theatre manager Simon Stephens and the collaboration has involved deaf awareness workshops for both staff and students with workshops focussing on acting skills and Shakespeare at Oak Lodge School.

Full Marks for Oklahoma workshop

Students from St. Marks a community school based in Mitcham took part in a workshop lead by Musical Theatre and Dance Leading Edge manager Lorraine Woodley. They were supported by students from the cast of this year's year 13 Musical Theatre show Oklahoma. The students started off with a general dance technique and then where taken through the contextual themes of Oklahoma, moving on to focus talking about the style of choreography in relation to the musical number 'Farmer and the Cowmen'. The students from St Marks then learned a section of this choreography themselves helped by Brit Musical Theatre students and performed it at the end of the workshop.

The students finished their day by watching a performance of the show. An enjoyable end to an enjoyable and highly rewarding day.

'They thoroughly enjoyed participating in the workshop and having a go at the choreographed routines that they would later go on to see in the show. They thought that you were an amazing teacher and all now want the chance to go to the BRIT School when they are older.' Lucy Brown, St Marks