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ABOUT
The Last Story in the World


James was one of eight playwrights selected to take part in the inaugural Tamasha/Mulberry School Writers Attachment Scheme in 2011, created and taught by playwright and Tamasha Theatre Company co-Artistic Director and Playwright, Fin Kennedy.

The scheme has since become Schoolwrights, the UK's first playwrights-in-schools training scheme, which uses Mulberry School as a training base for other writers. As part of the Attachment Scheme, his play, The Last Story in the World, was performed by Mulberry Students, supported by professional actors, as a script-in-hand rehearsed reading, on a 'scratch performance' at Soho Theatre.

The Last Story in the World was chosen by Mulberry School Year 11 students as the text for performance for their GCSE Unit Three Drama. James directed the performance at the school, which was externally assessed by a visiting examiner.


“The pilot playwrights-in-schools training scheme which we set up together attempted to test out a new model. It went phenomenally well. Even though the scheme was barely able to offer much more than expenses, we had over 60 writers apply for 8 places, proof of the strong demand among playwrights for some sort of managed training around working in schools. The 8 writers we ended up working with, who included Sabrina Mahfouz, Tim Cowbury, Neela Dolezalova and Amman Brar, each wrote touching, funny, quirky and heart-breaking 15-minute plays which Mulberry’s students presented at Soho Theatre.”

Fin Kennedy, 2013