Page 35 - Creative Arts 2019

Mr Punch Dreams

and No Exit

This year, Short Cuts, our annual evening of
short plays, featured two contrasting pieces.
‘Mr Punch Dreams’ was a high-energy, slapstick
adaptation of the popular Punch & Judy show,
Drama
with human actors taking the place of the
traditional glove puppets! Cameron Baxter-
Allen played a boisterous Mr Punch to Ruby
Loxton-Dally’s fiery Judy. Law and order were
represented in this anarchic, disorderly piece
by Edward Wardell as a delightfully comedic
Constable and Inigo Edens as the sadistic
executioner, Jack Ketch.

After the interval was an adaptation of ‘No
Exit’ by Jean Paul Sartre. Three strangers, Garcia
(Tiger Kelleway), Inez (Will Drew) and Estelle
(Sophie Turkman) meet in a locked room, where,
in this intense psychological drama, they come
to realise that “hell is other people.”

Sound and lighting were operated by our superb
pupil team of Ollie Whitingham, Barney French
and Sam Wardell.