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Senior School Production
Curtains Up
on Dagenham
The suspense around the School was palpable:
could this year’s Senior School show really live
up to the hype? Previous years had set the bar
high with Grease and Sister Act. What’s more,
unlike former productions, Made in Dagenham
presented its audience with brand new material
– untested and unknown by most – and with
an edgy political message. But Moreton girls
have much in common with their Dagenham
counterparts; they are strong, talented,
enthusiastic team players who believe in
themselves. This spilled out onto the stage
with every performance.
From the outset, the carefully-crafted
nuts-and-bolts of the scaffolded staging
suggested this would be a no-nonsense transported to working-class Dagenham in Essex
performance where talent would take centre and, unlikely though it may seem, the players on
stage, as indeed it did. The Made in Dagenham the stage were utterly convincing as young men
ensemble instantly hit the audience with an and women working in a mundane car factory
adrenaline punch of song and dance. We were seeking thrills wherever they might.
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