Trophies for senior school pupils at Plymouth Festival

Published: 14 December, 2011

Plymouth College pupils, Phoebe Hirst, Poppy Mills and Robert Davies have returned from the Plymouth Festival of Speech and Drama with a clutch of winning silverware.

Phoebe topped the U18 Solo Acting Class with an 'Honours' score of 90.  Winning the Holly Goodall Trophy (named after a former Plymouth College pupil), Phoebe performed an extract from Chekhov's 'The Seagull'.

Poppy Mills won two classes in the U15 age group.  First up was the Impromptu Story-Telling Class, where she had to make up a story about three objects given to her by the judges.  Her imaginative tale secured her the Plymouth Society of Music Cup.  In the Solo Acting Class she won the Blanche Starling Trophy for her performance of 'Scream if you want to go faster'.

Also in the U15 age group, Robert Davies jointly won the Prose Reading Class and shared the Lisa Kay Trophy.

Photograph: Phoebe Hirst, Robert Davies, Poppy Mills