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Saturday 1st March
Years 7-13

"Noughts and Crosses", Liverpool Playhouse, 2.00pm

 

Saturday’s trip to see the Royal Shakespeare’s Noughts and Crosses at the Liverpool Playhouse was a great success.  26 pupils from year groups 7-13 attended and everyone enjoyed it.  The play is based around the tragic love story of two young people living in a harsh imaginary world where the white underclass, the Noughts, is fiercely segregated from the Crosses, the black ruling class. The quotes speak for themselves.

Arabella Gonzalez

“It made you think about the world differently.” Isabelle Makin - 8JEC

“It was clever how they didn’t use any scenery at all but you knew exactly where they were all the time.” Liza Ashby - 12ABL

“Cool. About two people trying to be together and it was so sad. I liked the love story – the Romeo and Juliet part.“ Paige Baker - Yr 8

“It was very frustrating. I could feel her desperation. I would depend on my mum in a situation like that and her mum was having problems in her own life.” Emily Bromage - 8IJC

“It really gets to you. I hadn’t read the book but now I’m really intrigued. Every moment of it I never was bored. It was really interesting. I was on the edge of my seat. It had funny and sad parts.” Chelsea Bentley - Yr 11

“It didn’t have any scenery. It wasn’t over complicated. I liked all of it.” Greg Bateman - 10JME

“The sparseness intensified it.” Mary Whitthread - Parent

http://www.rsc.org.uk/downloads/video/noughts/noughts.html

 

Brought to the Liverpool Playhouse, in the European Capital of Culture 2008, by the Royal Shakespeare Company and inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, "Noughts & Crosses" dramatises the thrilling love story of two young people kept apart by prejudice and injustice.  "Noughts & Crosses" seeks to challenge our perception of race, power and truth by tellling the love story of Sephy and Callum.

 

Sephy, a Prime Minister's daughter from the powerful Crosses, falls for rebel Callum, son of a dangerous nought agitator. Their desire to be together threatens family loyalties and sparks a growing political crisis.

 

Malorie Blackman is a best-selling author of books for children and young people. "Noughts and Crosses" – which came in at number 61 in the BBC survey of Britain’s best-loved books for The Big Read – has been adapted and directed by Dominic Cooke, former associate director of the RSC and now artistic director of London’s Royal Court Theatre.