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Play for performance: Into the Woods JR.

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Each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students. This issue, Victoria Harrocks, Creative Arts Coordinator at Formby High School, conjures up her diverse and inclusive performance of musical fairy tale 'Into the Woods JR.'
Students at Formby High School in performance
Students at Formby High School in performance - CLARE WILKINS

Set in a fairy-tale kingdom, Into the Woods JR. reimagines the Brothers Grimm tales with their narratives intertwined, and the various plots are tied together by a Narrator. The story centres around a Baker and his wife who wish to have a child and to do so must undo a witch's curse. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's musical is one gigantic fable which visits key themes of wishes, the pursuit of dreams and their consequences. Through a series of adventures and encounters with fairy-tale heroes and villains, the characters enter a journey ‘into the woods’, confronting their issues and the fallout from their mistakes.

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