Horton Park Primary

The Alhambra is one of a number of theatres around the country working with organisers of the UK’s largest youth drama festival.

Youngsters from the MyBD5 clusters of schools have been preparing for the festival since September and are re-telling sections of three Shakespeare plays. They are being coached by Luke Broughton, actor in residence for the MyBD5 schools, who said the project has opened up the world of Shakespeare, “making something inaccessible accessible”. Pupils from St Matthew’s C of E, St Stephen’s C of E and Horton Park primary schools, all in the MyBD5 cluster, will be acting, playing music and working with the technical team for performances of sections of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest on Thursday. The children, from years five and six, have been studying parts of the plays in the classroom.

The performances by the three schools will also form part of the two-week long MyBD5 Literacy Festival to be held in January, involving primary schools in the cluster.