Monday 9 February 2015

ORIGINAL BRITISH DRAMA BLOCK: Dolphin Hall

The second in the series of new school productions.

In the ruthless arena of King Jacques VIII’s hall, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the autocratic leader’s favour and ascend to the heights of education power. Thomas Brookman.

Ingrish in the 1520’s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without any hair, the Quad could be destroyed by civil war (or a new building). Jacques VIII wants to annul his Assistant Head of twenty years, and marry Abdi Boleyn. Most of Cricklewood opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his adviser, Cardinal Mayne, and leaves a power vacuum (Henry the tyrannical Hoover).

Into this impasse steps Thomas Brookman. Brookman is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate scholar, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Jacques is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Brookman helps him break the opposition, but to what price will his triumph come?

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