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| Moses Hardwick RADA (left) with players from Midsummer Dream |
Volunteers at Cirencester’s Corinium Radio are busy
preparing for their appearance at the town’s Phoenix Festival at the end of
August.
No, not as a band! In fact Cirencester’s community radio
station is bringing Shakespeare to our flagship festival. “Midsummer Dream’
will be presented in the arena in the Abbey Grounds. It is an adaptation and
shortened version of the bard’s masterpiece “A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, so we
shortened the title too.
A group of young actors have come together especially for
the event. Auditions were conducted by RADA trained actor Moses Hardwick, who
has adapted the play and has joined with the radio station to present it to the
town. The cast will have free guidance from Moses, who worked with Corinium
Radio on a previous radio play project, which was a great success.
Moses is passionate about doing the play and feels it has
stories to tell on many levels. He explained that those he auditioned were a ‘mixed
bag’ including trained actors and people with professional experience. “That’s
what the community is”, Moses said.
CR spokesman Tony Coleman, added, “Moses is passionate about
community and about the problems facing the funding of the arts and culture in
this country.”
And Corinium Radio chair Carole Boydell said, “Corinium
Radio is at the heart of the local community and sees this project as a really
exciting creative adventure. We thought giving local people the opportunity of
getting some free training with Moses and then putting on a performance was a
really good idea and hope to see lots of people enjoying it.”
Midsummer Dream is on Sunday August 27th at
12.30pm.
Corinium Radio will also be undertaking broadcasting duties
for the Phoenix.
If anyone feels able to play a part in running Cirencester’s
own radio station, contact Carole Boydell on 07776 144033.
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