HEREFORD's newest drama group, Caroline Peachey's Act One, presented its first performance at Hereford Sixth Form College's Griffin Centre last Saturday.
More than 30 talented youngsters from Years 6 and 11 provided a great evening's entertainment with a series of short 'devised' pieces of work providing a vivid snapshot of all that concerns, worries or amuses them.
From bullying to the beginnings of the dating game and domestic violence, the students embraced an enormous range of complex emotional issues, counterpointed with several moments of laugh-out-loud humour as they parodied the world of reality TV in Freddy Steady Cook and took an ironic look at self-help groups in Jeans Anonymous.
Especially memorable were Lyndon Webb's Dad, a powerful and moving performance in which Lyndon played both father and son to great effect, and the younger group's Loser - a very short, shocking piece about bullying.
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