FPSS Berlin Trip: Day Four – 16 February 2012
After waking for the last time in Germany’s capital city, we all washed and dressed, and then proceeded to unpack everything we’d packed last night in a bid to save time this morning, and...
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FPSS Berlin Trip: Day One – 13 February 2012
To maximise on German daylight, the trip began with an early start. For me, somebody famed for late nights and early mornings, I wasn’t quite sure what to do about the agreed 3:55am meeting...
Last Night of Little Shop of Horrors – 9 February 2012
Read about the rehearsal process here. Twenty songs, six months of rehearsals, and four performances to the paying public came to an end this evening, as my fellow Little Shop of Horrors cast members...
Shutting Up Shop: The End of Little Shop of Horrors – 9 February 2012
Shortly before the curtain-call for Furze Platt’s production of Little Shop of Horrors before half-term, cast member Andrew Burdett described the experience of playing Orin. Here in the school Dance Studio (acting as a...
Little Shop of Horrors: The Beginning of the End – 2 February 2012
A week tonight, the audience will applaud Furze Platt’s performance of Little Shop of Horrors for the last time; we’ll strike the set; and if we’re all not too tired, somebody will host an...
GCSE Drama Performance: ‘The Middle Place’ – 8 December 2011
It’s a common myth that GCSE Drama is a ‘doss-subject’, with little real work involved. In my first years at Furze Platt, I was of that opinion too, and whilst I enjoyed partaking in...
Opening of Furze Platt’s New Arts Facilities – 11 November 2011
Tonight, my school’s new Music and Drama facilities were officially opened by The Right Honourable Theresa May MP, followed by a twenty-minute show incorporating all three performing arts. Ms White, the headmistress, began the...
FPSS Drama Block: Journey to the Curtain Up – 11 November 2011
I remember the cold morning earlier this year clearly when, during a choir-practice for the upcoming spring concert, I first caught wind of Mr Bown’s ambitious plan to reorder the Music and Drama facilities...
