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There are seven plays in total, listed below with cast numbers, rough age guides and gender splits. 
Point of No Return
The Abigail Project
Dancing Round the Crocodile
Remembering Florence
The Bubblegum Tree
Ill Met by Moonlight
Victory Day                              
cast of 29  
cast of 23 
cast of 28
cast of 16  
cast of 32
cast of 34
cast of 30                            
yr 7-13
yr 10-11
yr 7-11
yr 12-13
yr 7-13
yr 9-11
yr 7-11                 
20 girls, 9 boys
16 girls, 7 boys
18 girls, 10 boys 
12 girls, 4 boys 
21 girls, 11 boys
22 girls, 12 boys
17 girls, 13 boys  
Scroll down the page for a brief synopsis of each play. 
Some button links to casting details, synopses, script sections and sound/video files etc now ready, more will be soon! 


Point of No Return (yr 7-13). Set in a derelict school, broken into by ex-pupils for nefarious purposes, where they are revisited by the ghosts and memories of their younger lives.

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The Abigail Project (yr 10-11). The story of a shy girl from a closed religious order, arriving in a mainstream state school to take her GCSEs, prompting both love and tragedy.

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Dancing round the Crocodile (yr 7-11). Set in the sewers of Stalingrad in the 2nd WW, where a band of patriotic Pioneer girls comes into conflict with disaffected orphanage boys, both groups trying to escape and survive the carnage.

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Remembering Florence (yr 12-13). Set in an exclusive Swiss private school, where the arrival of an unlikely new student causes repercussions stretching into adulthood.

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The Bubblegum Tree (yr 7-13). Set in divided Berlin in the 1970s, in which a group of West German school children try and engineer the escape of a young East German ballerina to the West.

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Ill Met by Moonlight (yr 9-11). The story of a precocious girl trying to arrange a secret performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at a summer Rock/literature festival, where parental neglect and plotting friends conspire against her, almost to the point of tragedy. 

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Victory Day (yr 7-11). Set in an imaginary England in the 1970s, following a Nazi victory at the end of the 2nd WW, in which a group of 'undesirables' from a 'Reformatory' plan to take hostage a number of 'chosen', Aryan students from an elite establishment in order to escape to America. 

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