Building on its past theatrical successes, St Mary's Canossian College's production of the musical play Arion and the Dolphin played to full houses recently.
Impressed by previous performances of Orpheus in the Underworld, Animal Farm, Antigone and Under the Spell, students, parents, teachers, former students and teachers and well-wishers crowded the school hall.
Their reward was another highly polished production with a popular message.
The classical story of how singer Arion was carried home by a dolphin gave lyricist, script- writer and producer Geoff Oliver the chance to win sympathy for the threatened dolphin and to reinforce the ideals of the school.
In the words of one of the songs: 'May these kings of the sea forever swim free in the ocean that all of us share.' More than 100 students were directly involved in staging the production, from acting to back- stage support.
There was even a rideable dolphin worked by a hydraulic mechanism.