A team of event management students at University Centre Shrewsbury (UCS) are set to host an event with the internationally-renowned Anglo-Belgian performance company, Reckless Sleepers next month.

Reckless Sleepers is bringing its acclaimed production, The Last Supper, to St Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury from 13 March to 15 March 2018 with the help of four UCS students.

Ninety7 Events are assisting in the promotion and production of the event. The team includes Olivia Ryles, aged 20, from Newcastle-Under-Lyme; Alicia Carpenter, aged 20, from Halifax; Chloe Halsall-Mooner, aged 20, from Ellesmere, and Mollie Brown, aged 20, from Telford.

Alicia Carpenter, Marketing Manager for Ninety7 Events, said:

“We are excited to be working with a company that has taken its performances to different venues around the world. Holding such a unique performance in an amazing atmospheric setting like St Mary’s Church is a fantastic opportunity for both us and the Shropshire community.”

The Last Supper is an invitation to dinner for a limited audience of 39 people per performance. With real scenarios past and present and invented, it is part performance, part meal. The performance is made up of half-remembered words written on rice paper and the forgotten last requests of inmates on death row. This unique performance event has toured internationally since 2002.

Reckless Sleepers was formed in 1988, taking its name from a painting by the Belgian surrealist, Rene Magritte. The project was formed out of a multiplicity of ideas and concerns, mishaps, accidents and opportunities. Reckless Sleepers uses small performances to embrace projects and ideas that larger performances cannot do.

Mole Wetherell, Artistic Director of Reckless Sleepers, said:

“The Last Supper is a performance where we invite our audience to dinner, to eat and drink with us while we speak and then eat the last words of the famous people throughout history.”

Tickets cost £15 and performances begin at 7.30pm. For tickets, please contact the University Centre Shrewsbury reception on 01743 297185, or visit: http://www.artsalive.co.uk/company.aspx?id=5018.