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Penelope Hare holds three of the top awards: Student Director; Student Directed Five-Minute; Best Overall Design
 
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Further success with Shakespeare!

Ms I Bercinskas —

Penelope Hare has been rewarded for her outstanding direction of Columba's 'Macbeth' piece for Sheilah Winn

Following her earlier awards (Student Director; Student-Directed Five-Minute; Best Overall Design) in the Otago round of the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare competition, Penelope has been awarded NSSP entry as a result of her direction. SGCNZ’s National Shakespeare Schools Production (NSSP) is a week-long intensive course, studying aspects of Shakespeare’s works and three of his plays in particular under the direction of leading directors.

High calibre tutors take workshops with the whole group for half of each day. For the other half, the students, in their three groups, rehearse with their Director and group for the week, culminating in public performances of scenes from the play each cast has studied. Other experiences are added to the schedule!

A residential course held each year in the September/October school holidays, it is based primarily in boarding schools in a different part of the country each year, with the performances either in school halls, local theatres or, if in Wellington, sometimes in the Legislative Chamber of Parliament.

This is a tremendous achievement - well done, Penelope!