Bringing Lord of the Flies to St. Giles

This year we return to St. Giles with a new working title and some new friends in the form of the BDC and Dance departments. As with previous projects and workshop weeks that we have run with the students here we are working towards a final performance/sharing on the friday of the residential week where all of the performance, video and artwork is created by the St. Giles students under the careful tutelage of the Brit School students who will devise and run all of the workshops.
This year we are bringing a darker feel to the week by exploring the story 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding. This story has a strong moral and social message which we hope to impart to our audience through the final performance.
Over the last 2 weeks our students have been exploring the history of the school they will be working in, examining and preparing for the range of needs that the students at St. Giles will have and developing engaging, exciting and visually stimulating workshops to teach.
All of this has been developed in close partnership with the other 2 strand groups involved and yesterday the students were able to use each other as guinea pigs to run through their proposed workshops.
Our final showing is on friday the 26th of June at 11am at St. Giles Special School in south croydon.