Review: Six – Teen Edition

The first time I saw Six by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss on stage, I was completely enthralled and desperate to explore it within a school environment. You can easily imagine how excited I was when I discovered a school's edition had been released. If you're looking to perform this as a school production, you'll know that you are limited to a small cast of six females. Helpfully in this adaptation, there is scope to add back-up singers and dancers. It lends itself as a perfect script to explore as part of a musical theatre module.

For those not familiar with the play, this musical theatre production uses direct audience address to tell the story of the six wives of Henry VIII. The use of singing and comedy capture the audience's attention from the beginning. On reading the script I immediately loved the character descriptions, such as: ‘Catherine of Aragon – A real badass monarch. Commanding, sure of herself, bold. She lights up the room.’ I knew that this would be a script that would capture students’ imaginations immediately.