Doing it for the kids...

Today was a very strange, exciting and ultimately fulfilling day.  It started standing in the pouring rain with 10 costumes, 10 pairs of shows, loads of hats and boxes of props - but ended with 62 very happy young people and great feedback from enthusiastic teachers.

We took our production on the road to St Columba's school in Kilmalcolm.  This was a pretty big undertaking, we had about 4 hours of workshops followed by a specially cut version of the play (down from 3 hours to 1)!  The young people were introduced to the main characters in the play and were also given roles to act out when we came to do the performance.

Here you can see Mark explaining to the group what the Globe theatre would have been like back in the day...

We acted out some scenes and encouraged the different classes to react to what was going on:

All in all it was a very successful day,  and hopefully something that the RSAMD shall continue to do.  We are heading to Greenock tomorrow to play the show to a youth theatre and then that's just about it all wrapped up and done!