HighTide today announces full casting for the first reading of Make Me to be performed as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival on 16 May.
Blythe Stewart directs Hannah Balogun (Tia), Meg Salter (Emily), and Cathy Sole (Alex) in this first workshop reading of Molly’s humorous and apposite play about leadership, heroes, and the plight of schoolteachers.
Written by Molly Naylor this new play receives its first script-in-hand reading at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival this May. Working with the festival’s engagement and participation team, Naylor has workshopped the play through a series of High School drama classes before bringing the play to life with the professional cast.
In conjunction with the National Youth Theatre (NYT), Make Me is providing vital stage experience to young emerging actors and will rehearse in NYT’s new state of the art facilities before coming to Norwich.
“The thing about teenagers is that they don’t know what they want. I’m here to help them discover what they want, and then make them achieve it. I mean help. Help them achieve it.”
Set in a struggling school in Ipswich, Make Me tells the story of Emily, a drama teacher with a saviour-complex, and the students she’s determined to save.
The reading will last approximately 90 minutes, followed by an optional 30 minute Q&A
