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Drama Festival
The Drama Festival saw Abingdon and St Helen’s
fifth- and sixth-formers perform five plays a night
for three nights in a variety of spaces in the Arts
Centre. The plays were a pared down version
of Shakespeare’s
Cymbeline; One Million Tiny
Plays about Britain
, a series of piercing windows
into other people’s lives;
The Shape of Things
,
one woman’s devastating experiment in shaping
another person’s world;
Cruising
, a seventy-year-
old woman’s search for a partner and
Come
out Eli
, which explores the impact on the local
community of the sixteen-day 2002 Hackney
siege – the longest in British History.
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Cabaret!
A combined cast from St Helen’s and Abingdon
with Lucy Taylor as the charismatic Sally Bowles,
Will Abell her American boyfriend Clifford
Bradshaw and Toby Marlow as the enigmatic
Emcee, all put in spectacular performances in the
musical Cabaret at St Helen’s at the end of last
term. By turns joyous, poignant and horrifying, the
cast had the audience with them all the way.
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