Shakespeare, Shocks and Showgirl
Forty-five students from Years 9 and 10 of The Queen’s School enjoyed a busy and varied three-day trip to London during the half-term holiday.
The girls saw Tim McInerny (Captain Darling of “Blackadder” fame) playing Shakespeare’s most famous villain Iago in the Globe Theatre production of “Othello”. This was followed by a tour exploring how the modern Globe is an exact replica of the theatre Shakespeare knew.
As a complete contrast the girls were then frightened to screaming point by Susan Hill’s atmospheric ghost story “The Woman in Black” which has been running in the West End for seventeen years. “I slept with the light on all night!” “I keep thinking she’s in the wardrobe!” and “I’ve had nightmares ever since we saw it!” were typical comments after they had been chilled by the brilliant performances of the two actors and the truly spooky atmosphere created onstage.
The Kylie Minogue exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museum delighted both music fans and dedicated followers of fashion. A dazzling display of the superstar’s costumes from the past twenty years together with video and music clips celebrated Kylie as an icon of show business glamour and glitz.
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Press Contact: Mrs Jane Taylor, The Queen’s School, City Walls Road, Chester, CH1 2NN Tel: 01244 312078 Fax: 01244 321507 Email: jtaylor@queens.cheshire.sch.uk
The Queen’s School, Chester, Cheshire is one of the country’s leading independent schools offering the highest standard of education for girls from ages 4 – 18.
Since its foundation, The Queen’s School has always been a highly successful academic school. In the latest Government league tables published in January 2007, Queen’s was again ranked as the top school in Cheshire based on both GCSE and A/AS level results.
Academic success is only one aspect of life at Queen’s. The Queen’s School and its staff encourage all girls to participate in a wide range of extra-curricular activities; these include drama clubs, plays and musicals, cabaret evenings, choirs and orchestras, a variety of sports such as tennis, lacrosse, football, athletics and gymnastics as well as a science club, an equine club and the Friday club which involves girls helping in the community. There is also the chance to travel with the school on adventure holidays, foreign treks, scientific research expeditions, French and German exchanges and skiing trips.
Established by a group of prominent Chester citizens in 1878 as the Chester School for Girls, the school was renamed four years later by command of Queen Victoria and is proud to remain the only school in the country to have been granted the name The Queen’s School by royal decree. The school has a number of bursaries available to students. Mrs Catherine Buckley is the present headmistress of The Queen’s School. Mrs Felicity Taylor is head of the Lower School on Liverpool Road.
Past pupils include Beth Tweddle, Olympic Gymnast, Sarah Kelly founder of the UK’s Neuromuscular Centre for muscular dystrophy and Vivienne Faull, the first woman to become Dean of an English Cathedral.
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