Nursery World - Learning & Development: Drama

Children from a group of six nurseries found a sense of ownership of their large-scale drama production when they turned their creative talents to Shakespeare, as Katy Morton hears

For one night only, 170 nursery children took to the stage to perform their own version of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

The three to five-year-old actors from Active Learning's six nurseries in London gave the sold-out show to an audience of 350 parents at the Unicorn Theatre near London Bridge on 25 June.

The hour-and-a-half-long production incorporated drama, dance and music. It was made up of six acts, with each nursery writing, directing and performing their own version of one part of the story. Nursery staff accompanied the children on stage and provided narration for the action, while video footage from the rehearsals was played between each act and set change.

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