This year’s Prep School production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was so well received by the audience and rightly so. Special mention must be made to our Head of Music, Mr Drew-Batty, Head of Drama, Mrs Foulkes- Arnold and Head of Art, Mrs Stamp, who should be justifiably proud of the cast and musicians who performed superbly. Well done to all involved!

The pupils had rehearsed endlessly since September to ensure they were prepared and ready for the three performances which conclude another busy term at Taverham Hall School.

The music for our production of Romeo and Juliet was exciting. 

Contemporary songs were chosen that aimed to reflect the mood and action of the story so that it became the ‘Narrator’, or as William Shakespeare would call it, ‘Chorus’. The music for the scene changes were composed by our own pupils in the band. 

Romeo and Juliet was not a musical, the cast only sang two songs, and the band was physically placed on stage with the cast to be considered part of the dramatic action. Indeed, one of the singers also played the part of The Prince of Verona!

Songs

U2 – With or Without You
Kesha – Blow
The Prodigy – Omen
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Keane – Somewhere Only We Know
Adele – Make You Feel My Love

And so the story begins…
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

The Scenes
Scene 1 – Verona. A public place
Scene 2 – A street
Scene 3 – A room in Capulet’s house
Scene 4 – Capulet’s ballroom
Scene 5 – Capulet’s orchard
Scene 6 – Friar Laurence’s cell
Scene 7 – A street in Verona
Scene 8 – Juliet’s chamber
Scene 9 – A public place
Scene10 – Juliet’s chamber
Scene11 – Friar Laurence’s cell
Scene12- Capulet’s House
Scene13 – Juliet’s chamber
Scene14 – Friar Laurence’s cell
Scene15 – A room in Capulet’s house
Scene16 – Juliet’s chamber
Scene17 – Mantua. A street
Scene18 – Friar Laurence’s cell
Scene19 – Capulet’s mausoleum

Taverham Hall School – Independent Schools Norfolk

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