PUPILS at Bromsgrove Preparatory School performed their own adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in the run up to the construction of their new performing arts complex.

Year seven and eight students put on the show in Bromsgrove's Drama Studio as a traverse production, with audience members sat on either side of the performance.

Charles Woollhead, head of Bromsgrove Prep School, said: "I think that we managed to capture Shakespeare in a modern setting and make it feel relevant even 400 years after the text had been written. It is so wonderful to see such talented performers rise to the challenge and still walk away inspired and wanting to get involved in the next production."

Construction of Bromsgrove School's performing arts complex is now underway, with two 300-seat theatres being build, linked by an avenue which connects the preparatory and senior schools.

The historic Routh Hall on the senior campus will be transformed into a concert hall and an adjacent new music school will house a suite of specialist classrooms, recording studios and instrumental practice rooms, as well as a reception foyer and box office.

The avenue will lead to an equivalent drama building - where the old Cobham Hall once stood - which will include flexible seating and a hydraulic thrust stage.

The facility will boast a 90-seat performance studio, with large scenic workshops, props storage and modern dressing rooms available for lessons and productions.

A spokesman for the school said: "From intimate plays to large scale productions, the new facility will provide fully equipped technical galleries and safe access to all lighting and flying facilities, encouraging students into technical aspects of theatre as well as performance."