SGCNZ PRIMARILY PLAYING WITH SHAKESPEARE (PPWS)

SGCNZ PPWS 2024 A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The SGCNZ PPWS 2024 Performance details are as follows:

• Tuesday 5th November 

– 12.30pm – 1.30pm – The Johnsonville Bowling Club, 34 Frankmoore Avenue, Johnsonville

• Thursday 7th November

12.30pm – 1.30pm – Northland Memorial Community Hall, 5 Woburn Road, Northland

• Tuesday 12th November

– 12.30pm – 1.30pm – Berhampore School Hall, 105 Britomart Street, Berhampore

An opportunity for young people from Years 1-8 and their teachers, this is a programme created to develop core skills as students embark on a journey of discovery of the delights of language, story-telling with confidence, and performing the words of Shakespeare – ignited with artistic creativity.

From cutting teeth on Shakespeare to the Globe

It is exciting to see that 3 children, Maddie Brooks Gillespie, Mirren Callaghan and Jacynta Scurfield, who began their time in SGCNZ’s activities in this programme, Primarily Playing with Shakespeare, as teenagers performed in our Regional and National Festivals, were chosen to attend SGCNZ National Shakespeare Schools Production and selected to be members of SGCNZ Young Shakespeare Company to study for 2 weeks and perform at the Globe in London! Maddie and Jacynta both became Narrators for SGCNZ PPWS performances, and Maddie has also designed most of the posters and programme covers. And so the pūkenga and whanau increases through SGCNZ.

For more information on this programme, or if anyone in any region around the country wishes to start up this programme under SGCNZ’s aegis, please contact Dawn Sanders on 027 283 6016 or email dawn@sgcnz.org.nz.