HENRY Beaufort students kicked off the three day run of their annual production on Tuesday with a sell-out audience.

The cast had worked for months to prepare We Will Rock - one of the school's biggest shows to date.

More than £1000 worth of rigging and lighting makes up the set, providing four performance spaces to create different settings within the narrative.

The story is set on iPlanet, once called Earth, where all musical instruments are banned to the public. The time is the future and globalisation is complete.

Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts.

It’s a safe, happy world. But not for rebels who want to rock.

 

The company computers generate tunes and everybody downloads them. It is an age of boy bands and of girl bands. Of boy and girl bands. Of girl bands with a couple of boys in them that look like girls anyway.

Nothing is left to chance and the hits are scheduled years in advance.

But Bohemians from the underground away from the vast cities are starting a revolution.

They believe in a 'golden age' where the kids formed their own bands and wrote their own songs. A time they call The Rhapsody.

Legend persists that somewhere on iPlanet instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock.

 

Legend persists that somewhere on iPlanet instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock.

The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from the stone.

With all of the hits from Freddie Mercury's Queen, We Will Rock you follows a young man named Galileo, who is running from the police and joins forces with the Bohemians.

Henry Beaufort will end their production run today with two performances.

The first is a matinee showing at 3pm and the second is at 6.30pm.