Many theatres across the South East have been offering tickets to students doing the Young Reporter Scheme.  This is to support the scheme and get a young person’s point of view on their shows. 

Elspeth Singleton from The Green School for Girls, covered Sleepers in the Field at The Questors Theatre in Ealing, a production about World War Two.  It is a play by Peter Whelan who explores people’s outlook on war and conflict. 

She said:  “I loved the experience of watching Sleepers In The Field and had a great time watching the play as it was very interesting and well produced.  The acting is spectacular.”

A colourful new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s family classic Jungle Book at The Richmond Theatre, was reported on by China Li from Waldegrave and Nicole O’Dea from St. Philomena’s Catholic School for Girls covered the production of Rope at the Queen’s Theatre, in Hornchurch; a thriller about two Oxford students who kill a fellow student ‘just for the fun of it’. 

Emily Hollands from Farringtons School enjoyed David Walliam adaptation of Awful Auntie at The Orchard Theatre in Dartford.  She said: “It was an extremely entertaining performance and can say that it was the antithesis of awful!”

Yasmin Ammour from Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise College reported on There and Here at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, a heartbreaking tale of surrogancy across continents and Egor Kaygorodov from Hampton School covered Rothschild and Sons at the Questors in Ealing about a family willing to risk everything. 

He said:  “It is an excellent production with a tone and text that is both cheerful and hopeful.  It forces its audience to reflect on issues that are important even today, such as the power of wealth in the face of bigotry.”

This has been an amazing opportunity for our team of young people signed up to do the Young Reporter Scheme and has given them a chance to experience some real life reporting and in some instances meet the stars of the shows.