Cambridge 800

One of 2009′s highlights for Keystage has to be the collaboration with Cambridge University as part of their 800th anniversary celebrations.

These events which culminated in a huge lighting display last month involved academic talks, music events, drama and much more.

Our part of the celebrations really kicked off back in summer 2009 with the ambitious task of taking 10 or so children from 9 primary and secondary schools in Cambridge rehearsing them separately, until the week before performance, to tell the story of 800 years of the University in under an hour! Our resident writer Mike Levy adopted a Reduced Shakespeare Company style for this and with original music from Dai Jenkins, we were ready to go by the start of term in September. Throughout October the children worked really hard to get to grips with this very fast paced and difficult to deliver style to produce something that all involved should be very proud of.

Thank you to all those involved, everyone in the University outreach and development team, Sue and Nicky, Ian – for all his help with the techy things, all the ADC staff who made the day so easy to run, our helpers Sam and Bryony and all the children and their parents for your talent and support!