Culcrow perform 'Kissing the Shuttle'

KEY Stage 2 pupils from Culcrow Primary School, Aghadowey performed "Kissing the Shuttle" by Dan Gordon on Tuesday 16th March.

This innovative project – part of the Lyric’s off-site Education programme – offers schools the opportunity to engage with professional directors, designers and composers in order to enhance the expertise of teachers and pupils working in drama. Six schools across the Province presented the play in March.

Philip Crawford, Project Director, said “we want to promote the idea that acting is a craft, involving skills that need to be practised and honed. The children are encouraged to follow the model of a theatre company, exploring all aspects of production from performance and design to marketing issues and the management of a budget.”

This is the second in a series of plays, Pat & Plain, commissioned by the Ulster-Scots Agency and co-funded by the Lyric Theatre and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

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