From its inception to its performance, this play was an entirely pupil-led production. A group of A level Classics students have just got a new teacher, Miss Lovell (played by a marvellously nervy and overenthusiastic Flo Armstrong); rebelling against the traditional syllabus, they request something that ‘actually happened in Roman times’ and so hold an election for the term’s Prefect: cue machinations galore, as the boys each fight for the prize.

Characterisation was distinct with Hamish Grant and Will Felton playing effortlessly off each other as Anthony and Cass respectively. Adam Kirkbride as Francis was a one-note hypochondriac with a debilitating fear of the sanatorium; his re-enactment of Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Will Felton was particularly memorable. Gus (Will Addison), the dark horse of the class, said little but came into his own at the end with his appointment as Prefect. After a week of backstabbing, treachery and betrayal, he is exactly what the class needs: ‘a boring boy’, the only one not culpable for Julian’s downfall.

Indeed, Alex Backhouse was worryingly convincing as the power-mad Julian who, with his sinister motto, ‘Train hard, play hard, play by the rules’, was the previous term's Prefect. Marcus, played by Oli Grant, was his devoted foil and follower but also a traitor and the cause of his downfall. ‘And you too, Marcus?’ says the duped Julian when he realises what the other boys have done to him. Charlie Warner played the headmaster; his dance with Rose Harris as Judith, the nurse, and a mop was a definite highlight.