SCHOOLCHILDREN from York will take to the stage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre next week.
Pupils from seven schools around the city will take part in The Head That Wears A Crown as part of a national celebration of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Learning and Performance Network on July 8.
A total off 100 students from 45 schools around the country will be involved in six performances exploring Shakespeare's Henry's plays, with the final performance happening in front of an audience at the RST.
Fourteen pupils from seven York schools, led by York High School and Julian Ollive from York Theatre Royal, are involved, and about 500 people are expected to watch the show.
Julian Ollive said: "The festival in Stratford is a wonderful way to close the three-year journey of our participation in the RSC’s Learning and Performance Network programme.
"By bringing together children and young people from all our seven partnership schools into a single performance augments the central theme of ensemble that is embedded in the project. The programme has been about bringing people together to learn and experience new ways of understanding and performing Shakespeare and there’s no better way to celebrate this than with our fellow regional partners on the RST stage."
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