The Theatre Royal Bath Theatre School returns to The Egg Theatre’s stage this April for a run of five performances of a brand-new adaptation of The Selfish Giant, written by Bath-based Sam Kenyon-Hamp.
Based on the classic modern fairy tale written by Oscar Wilde, performances run from Tuesday 4 to Thursday 6 April. Audiences aged six years and over will be taken on a journey celebrating the joy of friendship and exploring the wonders of childhood imagination and the meaning of ‘home’.
The Selfish Giant is devised by and features 17 cast members and 10 TRBTS backstage crew, including lighting and sound operators, stage management and costume and prop makers. The company, who all come from Bath and Chippenham, include performers aged between 11 to 13 years and backstage crew aged up to 18 years old.
Work on The Selfish Giant began in September 2022, when Sam Kenyon Hamp (writer and Theatre Royal Bath Education Officer) began exploring the story’s themes with the students.
“As we started to dissect the fairy tale we realised that we wanted to tell this story in our own way and in a world that felt completely ours,” said Sam. “These young people have built this world brick by brick: its history, its rules, what they believe and who they are within it.
“Every single one of them has put so much of themselves into this process and have such a fundamental understanding of the play, that whenever they take to the stage you can feel the energy buzzing off of them.”
The Selfish Giant appears at The Egg Theatre from Tuesday 4 to Thursday 6 April. Tickets are on sale at the Theatre Royal Box Office on 01225 448844, The Egg on 01225 823 409 and online at theatreroyal.org.uk/whats-on/