Thursday 16th July saw the culmination of a Leading Edge project in which our year 12 theatre students performed a selection of plays written by year 10 students from Saint Mark's Academy in Merton. The project was initiated by Leading Edge theatre manager Simon Stephens who has worked with the students at St Mark's to help write the plays. The performances to the public took place at the Croydon Warehouse theatre as part of the BRIT theatre departments Strawberry Picking week long residency where plays written and performed by our students are performed. There were four plays from St Mark's students on offer looking at issues such as smoking and bullying. The St Mark's students clearly enjoyed the experience of working with our own students to realise the performance of their plays. Here's an email from Gabi Thomas the St Marks student who wrote Checkerboard, one of the plays performed
"Thank you for picking my script and bringing it to life from page to stage, the actors/actresses where amazing and i still cant believe that mine was picked! It has really inspired me to future to be on stage when im older! Thank you again everyone who directed and performed, i had a really good day
Again Thank You Gabi Thomas"
The plays performed were
BIN FILLING by Florence Stanton
NO SMOKING by Tyler South
CHECKERBOARD by Gabi Thomas
PURSUIT OF DREAMS by Anneka Williams
