School Shows and Productions

Highlights from some of our recent co-curricular Performing Arts productions.

COMING SOON ….. ROCK OF AGES, DECEMBER 2024

‘OLIVER’ by Lionel Bart – DECEMBER 2023

Oliver! was performed over three nights to a packed house and was enjoyed by our audiences with its memorable music and thought provoking story. The tale of the poor abandoned orphan trying to find his place in the world, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. This meeting enables him to eventually find his long lost family, but not until he has experienced the dark underworld of Victorian London. Oliver! is a story about looking for love, looking for someone in his life just to care about him. It is this aspect of the story that pulled the audiences in just as much today as when Dickens originally wrote it in the 1830’s.

‘HOME’ – A Performance Project with ex-student Paul Wilkins – OCTOBER 2023

Between the 17th and 19th October, thirty pupils and students worked with Paul Wilkins star of ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘Hair’ for three days on a collaborative project on the theme of ‘Home’. Paul, who left Bay House School in 2009 to pursue a career as an actor, wanted to return and give back to the school that ignited his love for Performing Arts. Over three intensive workshop days those involved worked together to create a script with Paul and learnt a wide range of musical theatre numbers.  The performance took place on the Thursday evening with a number of friends and family of our cast and Paul Wilkins there to support all the fantastic work they achieved in such a small amount of time. We had responses such as “Moving, entertaining and thought provoking… and all put together in 3 days!!! Each of those students has had their life changed by what you have done for them.” 

‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’ by Frank L Baum – DECEMBER 2022

In December 2022 we presented a production of Frank L Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. A magical and fantastical story of living scarecrows, talking lions and a man made of tin who, with the heroine of our story Dorothy, encounters two Wicked witches and a very good witch too. The production was very well received and was performed over 3 nights.

‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’ – DECEMBER 2019

Performed by KS4 and 5 students Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical with music by Alan Menken and lyrics and a book by Howard Ashman. The story follows a hapless florist shop worker called Seymour  who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. Little Shop of Horrors is one of those plays that evokes a lot of memories, it has darkly funny humour and amazing tunes. The play is tongue in cheek, comic, but at its heart it is a love story and one a lot of us can relate to (well apart from the alien, man eating plant bit)!