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PUPILS at a Bournemouth academy have marked one year of lockdown and schooling during a pandemic by capturing their memories in a time capsule. All 420 pupils at Jewell Academy, from reception to year 6, produced a piece of work for the capsule. Items ranged from letters to the NHS, letters to their future selves or drawings of super heroes with all the work designed to reflect their thoughts on the last 12 months. Their work has been sealed inside a time capsule which has been buried in the school grounds. Six years will pass before it is dug up and the contents examined.
The event was to launch this year’s play by the Kwasha! Theatre Company, a group formed to give graduates from the Market Theatre Laboratory their first professional job and a guaranteed salary for a year. Except that the latest batch of students graduated into a world where theatres were closed, audiences were banned and nobody knew how it would all survive.
Its members have explored digital opportunities, and worked on various Zoom events including some international cooperations. They recently launched what would normally have been a “proof we’re professional” stage show, but instead of filling an auditorium they turned Boris Vian’s absurdist play