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Student Directed is an academic enrichment in which Sixth Formers direct their peers. This year we had six pairs of directors who wanted to embrace this opportunity of student leadership, realising the potential of the plays they had chosen.
They have been coached in the cutting and casting of the plays and how to manage their rehearsal schedules, but the directing is all their own, which is why this project remains such a popular option for sixth formers and such an entertaining evening for audiences.
If you wish to see all six plays, please attend both nights.
Lupton Hall 19:30
• 100 by The Imaginary Body
• Art by Yasmin Reza
• Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill
Old Drama Studio 19:30
• Strategic Love Play by Paines Plough
• Contractions by Mike Bartlett
• Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
100 by The Imaginary Body: Imagine you must choose one single memory to relive for the rest of eternity and everything else will be erased forever. You have one hour. Set in a void between life and death, grappling with themes of memory, truth, importance of choices, and time. The characters in 100 are forced to question what is truly meaningful to them and face the honesty of their memories.
Art by Yasmin Reza: A hilarious and insightful play that turns one modern painting into a razor-sharp exploration of friendship, ego, and what we call ‘art’.
Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill: A brutal, darkly comic exploration of how former 1980s revolutionaries navigate a world where their idealism has died, leaving them exhausted and searching for meaning in small gestures rather than grand political change.
Strategic Love Play by Paines Plough: A woman. And a man on a first date.
Contractions by Mike Bartlett: A darkly comic play about a manager’s invasive control over an employee’s personal life, exposing the absurd extremes of corporate surveillance and compliance.
Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett: We were all young once