Year 13 A-Level Drama students delivered an outstanding production of Oliver Lansley’s Flies on Monday 3 March.

Through a series of carefully chosen extracts from this highly original one-act play, the audience were drawn into the world of Dennis, an unemployed dental assistant plagued by an intense fear of flies (or pteronarcophobia, to use the scientific term!). Intriguingly, we also gained an insight into the mind of Dennis’s nemesis, the Fly itself, and soon learn that the hatred is mutual.

At A-Level, students are required to perform extracts from an existing scripted play in the style of a recognised theatrical practitioner. Year 13 were influenced by Steven Berkoff, whose work is muscular, physical and abstract, and makes extensive use of multi-role and choral speaking.