The Rock Eisteddfod

The ’03 Rock Eisteddfod

Rock Eisteddfods offer De La Salle boys the rare opportunity to take an original and engaging piece of theatre to an audience. This year, De La Salle reflected on the essential ingredients of an Eisteddfod entry and posed the question ‘What’s All That About?’ Is it the concept, the narrative, the choreography or the teamwork? Or is it the courage that a young man draws on to perform confidently without the safety net of pre-conceived expectations? The following email from a member from the ‘non-De La’ audience summed up many people’s view of our 2003 entry: ‘I offer congratulations for such an outstanding performance by De La Salle at the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge. Put simply, your performance blew us away! The initiative and creativity behind the whole concept was outstanding, and each segment was as good as the next. Each boy performed brilliantly — there was not one performer who didn’t put in 100 per cent. It was amazing to see more than 100 teenage boys on stage performing so professionally and in sync, having clearly spent hours upon hours preparing their dance work. It was by far our favourite performance on the evening, and we certainly hoped you would move to the finals. If we had our way you would have! Best of luck for future performances.’

Mrs Mary Finn Rock Eisteddfod Coordinator