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Teenagers' lockdown musical is ready

VIDEO: Now it needs a producer!

Three East Devon teenagers who spent lockdown and beyond writing a musical have finished it, sung it and are now ready to take it to the stage - if they can find someone help them do that.

Lyricist Edward Heath (tractor boy), composer Harry Long (specs) and producer Dom Harrower (guitar), who left Colyton Grammar School without taking exams because of lockdown and have now moved on to separate universities, wrote their show around experiences of teenager going through sixth form. Fourteen songs, in a show called 'Individuals - the Musical - with a coronavirus twist at the end. 

The story follows two main characters, a girl called Maisie (played by Sophie Black), who's joined a new school for sixth form and a boy called Luke (played by Harry) who's been at the school since year seven. Throughout the musical both characters meet with challenges faced by sixth form and college students across the UK, from bullying, to relationships, to depression. 

The first act starts with Maisie and Luke's first meeting. Maisie is integrated into a group of girls who are seen as extremely popular on the social scale. They are quick to warn her off Luke who they don't deem an appropriate match since he is not seen as 'cool' enough.  After a rollercoaster of events and emotions, they both end up in relationships with other people.

The second act opens with a song sung by a group of ladish boys bragging about their summer. Later, at their lowest ebb, the two main characters end up re-discovering their connection. However, sadly the story does not end with the two of them coming together in a whirlwind romance. Instead, before their relationship has even really begun. Covid-19 hits, causing the school to shut and forcing Luke and Maisie apart.

See them explain all in this report from BBC Spotlight.

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