The day started with breakfast as usual before the heading to our favourite underground station, Canada Water. We closely followed Mr Warren and our group leaders through the underground and packed into a busy tube.
After several train changes, we arrived at our destination in Blackheath to participate in our workshop with ‘Punchdrunk Theatre Company’. Kate, our mentor, gave us a quick explanation about the theatre company and the work that they do. They specialise in immersive theatre and showed us how we could use such theatre to change the atmosphere within a space, without words and use our bodies to convey a situation. We were given the opportunity to use the skills that were taught when we devised our own short performances. We then performed in front of the group. We all had a lot of fun learning new ways to perform and using different spaces such as the stairways and large ballrooms.
Following on from the workshop, we made our way back via several more busy tubes. We stopped briefly, at the Surrey Quays shopping centre close to the hostel, for a late lunch. After some mundane domestic chores, such as laundry and cleaning up our rooms, we set off for The West End to see ‘Matilda the Musical’ at Cambridge Theatre. The tubes were packed but we managed to get there and back without losing anyone.
‘Matilda’ was absolutely incredible and everyone loved it so much. The standard and quality of performance, the talent of the child actors and the older actors was completely amazing. Everyone has described it as being “the best thing they have ever seen ever” and we all agreed that we would be happy to see it every night for the rest of our lives. There was a buzzing chatter amongst leaving the performance which has continued all throughout the night and to the next day.
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