Our Plays for this School Year: 2011 - 2012

You are at home and you open the door and walk outside. But outside is not what you expect. You are not where you expect to be either; you are suddenly somewhere else. And then there are even more doors and every door you open takes you to yet another place. How do you find the door that takes you home again?

The Door is a comic adventure story that takes us into the worlds of film, of comics, of folk tales and classic children’s literature as well as various countries in the world. The style of theatre, the visual manner of the performance and the carefully selected language items, together with the active participation of the audience make The Door entirely comprehensible and highly involving to primary school learners.

Just Good Friends is a play about friendship, dreams and misunderstandings set in a Fame Academy.

Just Good Friends is based on the typical TV sitcom and is full of warm humour, original ETC music and songs with just the right mix of dramatic moments. The three central characters Polly, Paul and Peter are three close friends and who all have their personal dreams of becoming famous. Unfortunately each person’s dream tends to intrude on the other two. That’s one problem.

The other problem is the letter. Polly finds a love letter that she thinks is from … well that’s the problem. Who wrote it? And what happens to the friendship when love rears its confusing head.

William B is the story of Will, a schoolboy who is average in everything except his imagination. Will feels either bored or threatened. He is bored at school and bullied, bored at home and nagged. Will’s only escape is in his fantasies where he imagines he is a star, a lone romantic hero, a brave courageous ‘modern-day knight’ who will conquer the heart of Beth, the new girl in town.

The problem is that Will is just as capable of dreaming himself into trouble as out of it.

William B is loosely based on ‘Billy Liar’ by Keith Waterhouse and is a play full of comedy, music and drama.

It is the year 2054 and the government, the business world and the media have merged to become one all controlling state organisation. Party politics is entertainment and entertainment is party politics. The Party is holding one of their monthly cleansing and correction entertainment events in your centre.

Best of all Possible Worlds is a caustic, often surreal, highly comic play that looks at this world through a series of sketches, songs and music and is very loosely based on 1984, Brave New World and other dystopian writings.