Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“Your head is full of make-believe, so there is no room in it for facts!” So speaks Soraya, Haroun’s mother, as she runs off with the neighbour, Mr Sengupta. Haroun’s father, Rashid, is left bereft, as his power to tell stories falters.

On Wednesday 23 June, Year 8 performed Haroun and the Sea of Stories, rekindling the power of storytelling in the first live performance the School has seen for 18 months. Their dynamic, beautiful storytelling proved there is most certainly a point to stories that are not even true. The cast has worked incredibly hard through many of the challenges of the past year to produce an outstanding piece of theatre.

The rehearsals emphasised the importance of ‘play’, encouraging the students themselves to take responsibility for crafting the performance, with lines allocated live in the space of the moment.

We would like to congratulate all the students who took part, as well as Mrs Morris-Wolffe, who has worked incredibly hard over the past year to bring this story to life.

As Haroun said: “I always thought storytelling was like juggling … You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you’re good, you don’t drop any.”