On Tuesday 12^th November the Ramsey Academy took a cast of 24 students to The Lakeside Theatre in Colchester to perform their production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare. 

This formed part of the annual Shakespeare Schools Festival, a nationwide project that encourages young people of all ages and abilities to engage with their cultural heritage, community and creativity through the performance of Shakespeare.

Work on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” began in the summer term and since then the students have been rehearsing hard in their own time with Mrs Barnes to bring this show to life. Students also had the fabulous opportunity to take part in cast workshops, working alongside professional directors from the Shakespeare Schools Festival organisation and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. The workshop facilitators from the Shakespeare in Schools Festival organisation were highly impressed and particularly pointed out how well they had done.

The performance on Tuesday was vibrant, entertaining and delighted a packed house at the Lakeside Theatre.

We commend our students as their behaviour, commitment, maturity and enthusiasm during the project was outstanding. Well done all!