Treasure Island: The Pilot

Proverbial Champagne-corks were popping at East Saltoun primary school the other day after a very successful first performance of the latest Charades musical - an adaptation of Stevenson's classic novel, Treasure Island. Elphinstone teamed up with East Saltoun to put the show on, and both parties put in many hours of hard work in preparation to tell the tale of Jim Hawkin's adventures on the Hispaniola alongside Dr Trelawney and the notorious Long John Silver. Needless to say, the show was a great success - well done guys; Bravo!! 

Treasure Island Pilot well underway

We at Charades HQ are very excited about the brand new show, a version of Treasure Island.  For the first time we are having a collaboration between two schools for this performance - Elphinstone and East Saltoun Primaries are teaming up to tell the story of RL Stevenson's classic tale of pirating.  We're visiting them this Wednesday to see how they're getting on!

Burke and Hare Return to East Lothian

Another three schools in East Lothian are taking part in 'Charades Productions' projects this term.  Aberlady, Stoneyhill and Campie Primaries are all taking on the story of the infamous Edinburgh murderers. This coming week is music-support day week where we visit the schools and pull the show together after the casts have all learned all their words... Watch this space to see how it all goes.

Pride of place in East Lothian Council's Youth Music Initiative Bullitin

We're very pleased to be slap bang on the front page of East Lothian Council's youth music bullitin!

Midlothian Primary Schools do a spine-tingling job of telling the tale of Burke and Hare

A very quick thank you to all five of the schools in Midlothian who took on the challenge of Burke and Hare. Each and every performance was of such a high standard we wonder whether everyone involved has already had extansive Musical Theatre training?! Hopefully we'll have some pictures etc to put up here before too long...

Burke and Hare take on East Lothian

A very quick note to say a MASSIVE thank you and well done to all the schools in East Lothian that have taken part in Charades Productions of Burke and Hare this term.  All five performances were fantastic and the hard work and determination that went in from everyone involved was worth it ten times over.  We have received lots of lovely thank you letters from lots of you and we're greatly appreciative of these. We'll hopefully get a few of them photographed and put up here shortly.

Windygoul's performance of Burke and Hare makes the press

Windygoul Primary's performance of the chilling tale of Auld Reekie's murderous duo has made the East Lothain press!! Here's the article. Well done WPS.

Burke and Hare on course for some murder in Midlothian

We're darn pleased to announce that five schools in Midlothian will be taking on the task of the Charades Production 'Burke and Hare'.  We can't wait to get working with Lawfield, Strathesk, St Matthew's RC, Tynewater and Paradykes Primaries. It's going to be grrrreat!

Burke and Hare to be performed by 5 more schools in East Lothian.

After the wonderful first ever performance of Burke and Hare by North Berwick’s Law Primary School in November 2011, five more East Lothian primary schools will now be performing the show in the coming months.  In no particular order Dunbar primary, St Martin’s RC primary, Loretto RC primary, Windygoul primary and St Gabriels RC primary will all be recounting the blood-thirsty tale of Auld Reekie’s murderous duo.  We can’t wait to get started...

Charades named as part of ELC's National Success

We are honoured to have been named as one of the contributing factors to East Lothain Council being awarded two National Music prizes by the National Music Council for 2011.  Here's a copy of the East Lothian courier's article on the matter: