Gadfly – Barnet – Day Three

All the scenes are now complete. Three scenes have been filmed ready to be edited, and the remaining three scenes will be performed live, with a Greek Chorus linking each scene. The students have worked dilligently throughout the three days and they are now ready for the performance tomorrow afternoon.

Gadfly – Barnet – Day Two

A great day. The students have made wonderful strides today towards completing the project. Mark and John were joined by Ed Thomas who will film  and edit three scenes. The finished project will contain a mixture of live and filmed scenes linked together by the Greek style chorus. For a gallery of photographs from today…

Gadfly – Barnet – Day One

The Gadfly Project got off to a great start in blisteringly hot conditions that sapped everone’s energy by the end of the day. Mark and John were full of praise for the way the students, aged from 8-13, kept going in the heat. The students are to present six scenes that make up the play…

Exciting Project in Barnet

Mark, John and Ed Thomas are about to embark on a most exciting original project in Barnet, North London. Based at the Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School for girls the project involves youngsters from 8-14 engaged in performing a studio version of Colin Swash’s exciting play, ‘The Man Who Argued Himself to Death’ entitled ‘Vote Socrates’.…

Exciting Range of Teacher INSET for 2008-2009 Announced

We have an exciting range of courses on offer for the next academic year. These courses are building on from the well received and highly successful courses which took place in 2007-2008. Each course is making use of our ‘Active Approaches’ concept which is seeking to enrich students’ experience of literature to inform their written…

‘Enthusiastic GCSE and A Level Drama students were missing school so badly during the Spring Bank holiday that they came back into school in order to do yet more work!! Famous actor – Mr Mark McGann – drove all the way from Somerset to Bingley Grammar school in order to complete an acting workshop based…