In 1984, John Hughes wrote and directed The Breakfast Club: A film aimed squarely at the youth of the time. It was an immediate and popular hit on its release a year later, featuring the hot young actors of the day (dubbed the “Brat Pack”), a contemporary and driving music soundtrack and, most importantly, something important to say about the way the "tribes" of society view themselves and others.

It tells the story of a group of five teenagers who are serving detention on a Saturday for one reason or another. They each belong to one of the school “cliques”, but on this day, they are thrown into the mix together, and by the time they part they’ve all learned a little more about each other, on a day they will never forget.

This new stage adaptation of the film displaced the original school from the USA in 1985 to a school “somewhere in England” in the present day. Little has changed. The values still hold true. Much of the famous, original dialogue is retained, but adapted for a new time and place.

The FIRST not LAST Theatre company was founded in early 2005 by Annie Wallace as an actors' co-operative, with the intention of producing new plays, or contemporary adaptations of existing theatrical scripts or screenplays.

The formation of the company was, in part, a reaction to the frustration of being a year out of drama school with very little genuine work on offer.

THANKS WERE DUE TO:

The staff of the Capitol Theatre at Mabel Tylecote.
Niamh Dowling, David Shirley, Mark Thurston, Kath Daly and the staff at MMU School of Theatre.
Jamie, Lev, Patto, Rose, Claire, Auntie Mal, Goldie and Karl for being troopers.