A prince who needs to marry pronto or the kingdom will crumble and a mermaid who saves from drowning and falls in love with said prince and naively sacrifices her voice and fins in order to meet and marry him – it must be...

“The performances by the young actors were excellent and consistent, bearing in mind the hundreds of characters they were asked to portray…It would have been an ambitious undertaking for the National or the RSC to mount The Last Days of Mankind. For a drama school, albeit with the co-operation of a major theatre, to present such an accomplished, original and successful production is a real achievement.”