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A play for 60 actors aged 10 & 11 telling the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Commissioned and performed by Billesley Primary School and as set within the frame of a child worried about playground bullying this play is witty and educational, a great read and published with original production photographs and 'making of' essay.

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"""The most extraordinary Primary School show I have ever seen."" Hugh Greenwall, Managing Director, Elliot Foundation While the play contains a central message about the importance of communication and cooperation, it doesn't dilute either the complexity or the potentially globally devastating consequences of the events it depicts. And there's something quite brilliant about having ten year olds playing world leaders, Fidel Castro, John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, emphasising the playground factionalism of the politics, while also conveying a real sense of jeopardy. Between them the children of Year 6 play also play a dizzying array of generals, pilots, revolutionaries and CIA operatives. Natasha Tripney, Exeunt"

The most extraordinary Primary School show I have ever seen. Hugh Greenwall, Managing Director, Elliot Foundation While the play contains a central message about the importance of communication and cooperation, it doesn't dilute either the complexity or the potentially globally devastating consequences of the events it depicts. And there's something quite brilliant about having ten year olds playing world leaders, Fidel Castro, John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, emphasising the playground factionalism of the politics, while also conveying a real sense of jeopardy. Between them the children of Year 6 play also play a dizzying array of generals, pilots, revolutionaries and CIA operatives. Natasha Tripney, Exeunt

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