On Monday 16 February our school invited the English Theatre Company (ETC) to perform the hilarious play Just Another (Hollywood Victorian) Blockbuster for the pupils from the third and fourth form.

J.A.B. is a comic play within a comic play. Very loosely based on three classic stories from British Literature: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Frankenstein and Dracula. J.A.B. is given the full ETC treatment when a small, deservedly unsuccessful, charmingly inept film company is mistakenly given the job of preparing the script for next summer's biggest Hollywood epic. J.A.B. includes a full range of Hollywood heroes that are ever so slightly wrong; such as New Jersey Jones and Beetleman. J.A.B. is two plays in one and it both treats the classic literature, is a spoof of the Hollywood blockbuster and also looks at the nature of writing itself and all this in our established ETC comedy style.

The comments on the performances of both players and pupils were overall positive. Furthermore, our school is already planning to invite the ETC next year for a new mind-blowing play.