Stage role for talented Park Hall School pupil

SPECIAL EVENT: Lord of the Flies was performed as part of
the Birmingham International Dance Festival

A PARK Hall School pupil has appeared in a Birmingham Hippodrome production of Lord of the Flies.
Fenton Lockley, aged 11, was among just 22 young performers to win a role in the show, part of Birmingham’s International Dance Festival 2014.
More than 300 hopefuls, some of them almost double his age, applied to take part in the performance, but Fenton was one of the few who made it through the gruelling auditions and workshops.
The Hippodrome said that the production, based on William Golding’s Nobel-winning novel, had found the best male dancers in the region. These talented children and teens were then set to work learning routines to perform alongside nine professional dancers.
After many months’ hard work, the show opened last week and finished its four-night run on Saturday evening.
Liz Leck, Birmingham Hippodrome’s creative learning manager said: “A special event like this that gives young men, some of whom have never danced before, the opportunity to perform on our main stage alongside professional performers from such a recognised and established company is something we are extremely proud to present.”
In his spare time Fenton is also a member of the Spotlight Stage School, a troupe which rehearses in Kingshurst and Castle Bromwich.