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Community Drama Performance at Box Hill

Undergraduates from the Applied Theatre programme at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham will be taking part in a site-specific outdoor performance of Aucell on Friday 7th-Sunday 9th May at the Old Fort in the Box Hill National Trust site in Tadworth, Surrey.

In the lead up to the performance the St Mary’s students will be working with school pupils from Box Hill’s local schools to develop their creative skills.

Applied Theatre Lecturer Matthew Hahn said: "I am pleased with the hard work and focus that the students have given to the Box Hill project.  It was quite a daunting task – to create from nothing, except a location, a fully realised production.  Alongside the play, they are facilitating theatre workshops and advertising the play to the local community.  It is a huge undertaking and they are proving themselves capable of great responsibility."

The Applied Theatre Course at St Mary’s is in its second year, having performed work with undergraduates and local young people at a variety of sites including Ham House and Chiswick House.

Applied Theatre undergraduate Hayley Louise Horn said, "Our performance shows that theatre can happen anywhere and is not limited to buildings.The skills that we have gained doing this project – writing, directing, budgeting, designing – will definitely help us in the future as we apply for facilitation jobs and community theatre jobs once we graduate."

For more information about the show, or if you are a local school that would like to participate in a workshop, please contact Matthew Hahn on 0208 240 4059 at the University College.  Alternatively, you can email him on hahnm@smuc.ac.uk.