Prior Park College Events
Official events page for Prior Park College
Summer Concert 2025
Friday 9 May 2025
Our wonderful summer concert features the College Orchestra, the String Ensemble, a number of solos and small groups, drinks on the lawn (weather permitting!), followed by Vivaldi’s electrifying ‘Gloria’ performed by a combined choir of over 50, a professional orchestra and student soloists. Tickets £8 for adults, students are free but will still need a ticket.
The Chapel
Band Night 2025
Thursday 27 March 2025
Join us for this adrenaline-fueled event, led by students. Top-quality performances and great fun! Tickets are always in high demand so are limited to 4 per family.
Julian Slade Theatre
Addams Family
Between Tuesday 18 March 2025 and Saturday 22 March 2025
Wednesday's in love, Morticia's not happy, the Ancestors are locked out, Fester is trying to help and Gomez just doesn't know how to make it all better.
Come along and see your favourite characters from the Addams Family as they try to solve life's big issues: love, honesty and of course, death!
Theatre
Key Clinic Presentation
Thursday 27 February 2025
We are offering parents the opportunity to join us for a talk by Sarah Warley from the Key Clinic. She helps to explore why many children under achieve relative to their intelligence and what can be done to turn it around.
Julian Slade Theatre
Christmas Soirée
Thursday 12 December 2024
Join us for a fun and festive evening, featuring a whole range of musical groups and ensembles in a relaxed and informal setting. Tickets are free with refreshments available throughout the evening, sold by PoP to raise valuable funds for the College.
BSR
Zimbe!
Thursday 21 November 2024
Zimbe! is the phenomenon which has rocked the choral world since its premiere in 2008, cementing Alexander L'Estrange's reputation as one of the UK's most popular choral composers of the 21st Century. Performed by the massed choirs of Prior Park College and The Paragon, Zimbe! is a sequence of choral arrangements of traditional songs from all over Africa in a jazz style. This is a work which forges links between adult choirs and massed children’s choirs, placing singing at the heart of the community as it always has been in Africa. And, since jazz grew out of blues which itself sprang from the mouths of African people, what better accompaniment for these songs than a jazz quintet? Zimbe! is at times touching and moving, at other times funky and grooving and all of the time incredibly uplifting both for performers and audiences alike.
The concert also features the College Orchestra and other ensembles.
Prior Park College Chapel
The Watsons
Between Thursday 14 November 2024 and Friday 15 November 2024
What happens when the writer loses the plot? Emma Watson is 19 and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast.
If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife. Luckily there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osborne, who's as awkward as he is rich. So far so familiar.
But there's a problem: Jane Austen didn't finish the story. Who will write Emma's happy ending now? Based on her incomplete novel, Laura Wade’s witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: What can characters do when their author abandons them?
Julian Slade Theatre
Prior Park College Scholars' Concert
Friday 8 November 2024
The annual showcase for our talented music scholars. The concert starts 6.30pm in the John Wood Chapel, with refreshments served at the interval. All welcome and tickets are free but you will need one as space is limited.
Prior Park College Chapel
Our Little Hour
Monday 7 October 2024
Show Racism the Red Card - the UK’s leading anti-racism educational charity - is touring theatres across the UK tour during Black History Month 2024. Our Little Hour will be brought to the stage in partnership with Live Wire Theatre and tells the inspirational story of the legendary, pioneering, black footballer – Walter Tull.
Julian Slade Theatre
Palladian Ball
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Prior Park College
Grand Summer Concert
Friday 10 May 2024
A musical extravaganza! Featuring Senior Chapel Choir, Lower School Choir and the College Community Chorus supported by a professional orchestra in 'Every Purpose Under the Sun by Howard Goodall', plus the College Orchestra in 'Carnival of the Animals' by Camille Saint-Saens, and of course our esteemed musical Grand Leavers' of 2024 in a variety of solos. Add to this drinks on the lawn with 'that' view, and you have the perfect summer's evening.
Prior Park College Chapel
Band Night 2024
Thursday 21 March 2024
Join us for this adrenaline-fueled event, led by students. Top-quality performances and great fun! Tickets are always in high demand so are limited to 4 per family.
Julian Slade Theatre
A Girl MissRed
Between Tuesday 12 March 2024 and Saturday 16 March 2024
Set in 1930s England, a “challenging” foster child gets the chance to stay with a grieving widow in coastal Devon. Welcomed by some, but treated with suspicion by others, Fran navigates this new world encountering new friends, the odd ghost and even Royalty!
Julian Slade Theatre
A Level Drama Group Performances
Thursday 11 January 2024
2 one act pieces performed by the A level Upper 6th Drama group. The first entitled "Swallow" examines the lives of three women trying to find ways to re-enter the world. The second, "Julie" is a modern adaptation of the classic Strindberg play "Miss Julie". Both pieces run for approximately 35 minutes and the estimated running time is 1.5 hours plus a 20 minute interval.
Julian Slade Theatre
Upper 6th Monologue Showcase
Thursday 11 January 2024
A selection of monologues from Shakespeare to Sophocles, from Ibsen to Strindberg. A short showcase lasting no more than 30 minutes highlighting component 2 scripted examination work.
Julian Slade Theatre
Humble Sleep Talk
Tuesday 28 November 2023
Join us in The Mansion for a talk by Dr Ashish Bhatia and Dr Sarah Blaikley, local GPs, educators and lead doctors at Humble (www.humble.info), that will simplify the science of sleep and empower you with practical skills and resources to improve your sleep and support those you care for.
Prior Park Mansion
The "IT"
Between Wednesday 22 November 2023 and Thursday 23 November 2023
Follow the journey of a teenage girl (Grace) grappling with an enigmatic presence growing inside her, a force she knows isn't a typical life within. This mysterious entity starts in her stomach but soon engulfs her insides, leaving her haunted by questions. Does it possess teeth, skin, feathers, or spikes? What could it possibly be? Presented in a documentary style, 'The IT' is a darkly comic exploration of adolescent mental health and the internal turmoil that simmers beneath the surface. Join us for a riveting journey into the heart of a young girl's struggle, where sooner or later, something must give…...
Julian Slade Theatre
Prior Park College Scholars' Concert
Friday 17 November 2023
The annual showcase for our talented music scholars. Refreshments from 6pm in the Mansion, with the concert starting at 6.30pm in the John Wood Chapel. All welcome and tickets are free but you will need one as space is limited.
John Wood Chapel
