English Speaking Union - Performing Shakespeare Competition

Across the Spring Term, all boys in Lower School participated in the our School heat of the ESU's Performing Shakespeare Competition. The boys put a huge amount of hard work into this competition. Finalists from each English class performed for visiting judge Ruth Allison, the Octagon Theatre's Youth Director. They all demonstrated an impressive depth of expression and we thoroughly enjoyed each and every performance. Shortlisting to two overall winners was extremely di ffi cult. There was much deliberation and we selected two performances from 450 entries across Lower School. Our winners were George Burrows and Charlie Simpson with their humorous performance from ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and Gabe Payne and Thomas Sibley with their dramatic rendition from ‘Romeo and Juliet’.

They boys went on to represent the School in regional finals with Thomas Sibley and Gabe Payne progressing to the next stage of the competition –huge congratulations to them! Our other duologue, George Burrows and Charlie Simpson, was superb, and narrowly missed out being the second performance through to the next round by one point.