Once a Catholic
Last Update 11-Mar-2008
From 19th April 1999
To 24th April 1999
Mary O'Malley
Directors Notes
London, 1956. A new academic year begins at the Convent School of our Lady of Fatima. For form 5a it is an important time: final exams loom on the horizon, and decisions are to be made for the future. For the nuns, their teachers, it is also a time of preparation, so that their young charges may go out into the world as good Catholics, equipped to face of the dangers of a quickly changing society. London in the late 1950s was seen as a hotbed of sin, and their girls had to be protected against the evils of boys and modern trend, such as Elvis Presley!
Unfortunately, the girls do not see their futures in quite the same way as the nuns, so it is with a spirit of rebellion that they prepare to enter their final year!
Be prepared for very strong language and a mixture of hilarious black comedy, tinged with pathos, as they struggle against the system!
The play is set in the Convent of Our Lady of Fatima, a Grammar School for Girls, in and around the streets of the Willesden and Harlesden, London N.W.10, during the academic year of 1956-1957