The Dark is Rising! Class 8a play
Friday 15th and Saturday 16th March, 7pm
Come and see Class 8a’s play The Dark is Rising, based loosely on the Susan Cooper books of the same name.
Entry is by donation, and funds raised will help pay for their class trip to Portugal in June.
The play has been created from scratch, with the script, music, and songs all written for the class.
A synopsis:
As winter sets in, freezing the world around him, young Will Stanton is about to turn thirteen. Christmas is a few days away, but something feels wrong, and he can’t figure out what.
He is part of a large bustling family, who live in the Oxfordshire countryside, and all seems well outwardly, until his birthday morning.
He reads a mysterious book and discovers a high and magical destiny in his life; he becomes an Old One, an ancient race of The Light, who defend the world against The Dark, headed by their terrible Lord.
The Dark seek to have dominion over the hearts of mankind and rule the earth, and Will must help The Light find a way to achieve a final victory over their menacing Rising.
The rest of Will’s family are unaware of his high calling, but provide a backdrop for other characters to participate, including The Lady of the Light and other helpers, weaving a connection back to Arthurian times and a Lost Land that has passed out of human memory.
We follow the adventure of both sides, in a struggle for final victory, after which a new task faces humanity, one less obvious, but key to the next step in human cultural destiny…
Oliver Harkness,
Class 8a Teacher
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