L3 Drama Evenings

Friday, 20th September 2024 at 10:09am

Shifting, Shimmering world of Folklore

Year 13 Drama students strutted their stuff on stage for the FINAL TIME during their Level 3 Drama Evenings earlier this week (Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th September, 2024) having put together the play 'Stories in the Dark'.

A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears.

Into his life steps Anna - older, street-smart,and scornful of his crying. As a way of calming him, she starts to tell him a story she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, princes, singing bones, foolish lads and wolf-mothers.

Stories in the Dark explores the power of storytelling, mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence, conflict and the struggle to survive.