This year’s Reddam House Umhlanga Senior
Prep production is entitled The Time
Travellers Club. It has been written and directed by Prep School Drama
teacher and well-known actor, Lyle Buxton. It is inspired by the classic Back to the Future trilogy.
The story follows a group of high school
friends who use time travel devices to journey into the past to experience all
the great music from different decades. The group of stereotypical characters, influenced
by the classic film The Breakfast Club,
then find themselves in a twisted alternate reality after the school bully,
Griff, steals a time travel device and changes history to empower his family.
The Time Travellers Club then have to travel back to the past to prevent
Griff’s ancestors from changing history.
The show features hit songs such as Thriller, Hey Jude, Dancing Queen, Don’t
Stop Me Now, Hit Me Baby One More Time, Footloose and many more …. as well
as characters such as Doc Brown, Elvis, The Spice Girls, Madonna and more, all
performed by the talented students from the Senior Prep.
The Time Travellers Club runs from October
23 to 25 with performances as follows:
October 23 at 18h00 (Cinema style seating)
October 24 and 25 (Supper Theatre seating)
Ticket sales through Reddam House on 031
566 5736. Reddam House Umhlanga is situated at 21A Preston Drive, Prestondale,
Umhlanga.