Theatre
We Will Rock You
Students from across all year groups at Saltash
the same thoughts and opinions. Furthermore,
Community School, performed with such vitality
instruments are forbidden and rock music is unheard
and enthusiasm for this year’s performance of We
of.
Will Rock You recently, directed by Emily Venner.
This juke box musical, (written by Ben Elton),
In short, the story is set 300 years in the future in
captures many of Queen’s greatest hits spanning
a futurist and globally corporate world. Planet Earth
over five decades, and is a futuristic tale which
has been renamed the Planet Mall and is controlled
everyone can enjoy – from romance, slapstick
by The Globalsoft Corporation who are in control of
humour, friendships and some dark aspects too!
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what its audience can listen to. The youth are called
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The Ga Ga Kids, who are forced to watch the same movies, to
listen computer
generated music, wear the same clothes and hold
Just some of Queen’s songs that were sang by the talented cast were Killer Queen, Radio Gaga, Under Pressure and Another One Bites the Dust and of course not to forget Bohemian Rhapsody (the finale piece and sung with huge significance). It was apparent that the audience enjoyed the familiar pulse and rhythm of all the songs judging by the synchronised feet tapping and clapping of hands. The cast of We Will Rock You! presented an
