The BRIT School bring SUNSHINE
On Monday the 25th June the BRIT School performed SUNSHINE at St.Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham. The students from the theatre department have spent the last three weeks working with the patients, listening to their stories, running actor workshops and creating a set designed by both the patients and the students. SUNSHINE told their stories about their school days, World war II, marriage and their hopes and fears. Playing to a packed audience in the Hospices canteen the play was a powerful example of the schools work with the local community. You can see it again this Friday at the Clocktower in Croydon. It is part of the Spiral event. Phone Box Office on 0208 253 1030. (EMAIL)
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Hi my name's nigel and I'm a manager at St. christopher's Hospice. the four weeks with the BRIT school students has been extraordinary. All credit to the students who worked senstively and maturely with a group of people all coming to the end of their lives. The resulting play was a revelation - both to staff here at St. Christopher's but also to the patients - to see their stories - their lives com to life in fromt of them. Back at the Hospice, these patients are missing the students - they've been watching a slide show all morning of the photographs from the project! We hope we can go on with this play - it has some very powerul messages - and most importantly it brought togther two parts of the community and enabled a depth of understanding between different groups that one would not of thought possible
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