Dream On: RSC actors and local children celebrate National Poetry Day
07 September 2007
The Royal Shakespeare Company will be celebrating National Poetry Day on Thursday 4 October with two special free events, open to all.
Actors from the RSC’s current production of Twelfth Night will perform a programme of poems on the theme of dreams in The Courtyard Theatre at 3pm. The verse will include work by Shakespeare, Coleridge, Yeats, Keats and Wordsworth.
Earlier in the day at 11am, over 150 Year 6 children from Alveston Primary School; Bishopton Primary School; Bridgetown Primary School; Snitterfield Primary School; Stratford-upon-Avon Primary School; and St Gregory’s Primary School, will assemble in The Courtyard Theatre to hear their own poems read by RSC actors.
George Richmond Scott from the RSC Voice Department visited the participating schools, helping them workshop ideas for their poems. George said: “The children have written some original poems, and everyone is looking forward to some of their verse being read out.”
At the end of the morning session all of the school children will come together for a mass reading of Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field.
Both events are open to the public and are free-of-charge. Members of the public should just turn up on the day.
Further information
For more information please contact:
Dean Asker
RSC Press Office
01789 412660
mailto:dean.asker@rsc.org.uk
Notes to editors
Photos from last year’s national poetry day are available on request.
