YOUNG people will bring Shakespeare's work to life in a series of special performances next week.

Arc in Stockton has worked with every school and college in Teesside to produce a variety of difference performances across the area.

Next week the works, all inspired by or relating to Shakespeare, will be performed at the Arc.

Macmillan College is performing Shakespeare Goes Clubbing on Monday at 6pm, followed by Polam Hall School, with The Audition, at 6.45pm.

At 7.15pm, pupils from Hall Garth School will present Seven Ages of Man and at 8pm Egglescliffe Youth Theatre will show Five Short Shaky Prices.

All these productions are free.

On Tuesday, Teesside Tertiary College will perform Macbeth from 7.30pm. Tickets are £4 or £3.

On Friday and Saturday, Tees Initiative presents It's Just The Way It Is, at 7.30pm, followed by Arc Youth Theatre, with After Juliet.

On Saturday, February 10, from 11am, Brambles Farm Primary School will present The Seven Ages of Elizabethan and Modern Man. Admission is free.

A week later, the Royal National Theatre will perform A Midsummer Night's Dream.

For details call (01642) 666600