An Update on LAMDA Genesis Foundation Scholars

Genesis Foundation Scholar Faye Elvin was recently selected to take part in the 2010 Sam Wannamaker Festival, in association with the Conference of Drama Schools. On the 21st March, Faye was one of 44 students from 22 of the leading drama schools in the UK to perform duologues by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to a packed Globe Theatre. The afternoon provided a festive mix of tragic, historical, pastoral and comical duologues with one of the Globe’s most crowded jigs as a finale.

For more information please visit The Globe website

Genesis Foundation Scholar Sam Swann has also been busy in a new play called Dunsinane, written by multi award-winning playwright David Greig, the writing adviser for the National Theatre of Scotland. Greig describes Dunsinane as a "cheeky" sequel to Shakespeare’s Macbeth written in rich, but modern, language: "I make no pretence to be as good as the original. It is genuinely a play that posits the question what happens after the end of Macbeth."

Tim Cornwell of The Scotsman writes, “Greig wanted to stress that many soldiers fighting in medieval Scotland might have been in their late teens and so the RSC recruited actors from London youth theatres to help get that message across. One key character was the unnamed Boy Soldier, played by Sam Swann, 20, of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, whom Greig regards as a rising star.”

Dunsinane was performed at Hampstead Theatre, London from 10 February to 6 March 2010.

For more information please visit the RSC website

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