With the end of SATs Year 6 embarked upon a grand project; an abridged version of the children's classic - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. With less than six weeks to pull the production together Year 6 teachers Mr Mawdsley and Mrs Trevor worked tirelessly to create a performance worthy of the West End. Along with musical director Mrs Mackie the team molded the entire Year Six into a trail blazing theatre troop and musical chorus. The results were absolutely outstanding.
Breaking the story down to its bare bones this piece of musical theatre took us from war-torn London to the childrens' relocation in the country, through the wardrobe to Narnia, their meetings with the faun Mr Tumnus, the Beavers, the White Witch and Aslan, engaging in the battle between Good and Evil and their return to the house of Profesor Kirke and Mrs Macready. A real whistlestop tour through C.S Lewis's allegorical tale.
And quite brilliant it was too. The music, acting, singing, props and scenery cannot be praised enough, and we hope the team will bring us something equally impressive next year. Bedknob and Broomsticks? Winnie the Pooh? Maybe even Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights? Who knows, but whatever it might be we know that if it is even half as good as this years effort it will be well worth the wait.
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