Arts and Drama
From September 2005, the school was re-designated as a single Specialist Arts College specialising in Media, Drama and Art.
The schools drama department's production of "Romeo and Juliet" was performed at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in October 2009 following a sellout run at Greenwich Theatre. The last Kidbrooke School production to be performed at this venue was the largely successful "Hotel World" by Ali Smith, a performance which earned the title of Best Play in the Edinburgh Fringe Report Awards. In August 2010, Romeo and Juliet ran for a successful week at the Edinburgh Fringe festival led by director L. Cuthbertson; earning several four to five star reviews. The play was modernized to highlight issues of knife crime and social disorder prevalent in the Kidbrooke community, in association with the Jimmy Mizen foundation, and this, as well as powerful representations of characters such as Tybalt, Juliet, and Nurse Angelica were particular points of acclaim from Fringe critics.
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