Three Northland students have one more hurdle to clear before they hopefully get chosen to represent the country at the Globe Theatre in London next year.
Whangarei Boys' High School Year 13 students Tim Atkins and Jonathan Leftley together with Stan Hallet-Pullen from Year 12 are among 46 students selected from throughout New Zealand to perform at the National Shakespeare Schools' Production (NSSP) at Dunedin in October.
The three formed an 11-member cast from their school that scooped three individual awards and a group award at the national University of Otago Sheila Winn Shakespeare festival in Wellington on Queen's Birthday weekend.
They performed Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Nights' Dream.
School drama teacher Fiona Pope is thrilled with their selection for the NSSP, which she said was a testament to their ability on stage. The whole cast of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Nights' Dream were talented, she said, and any of them could have been 'the ones'.