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Shrewsbury students to perform at Edinburgh Fringe

A group of students from Shrewsbury School are heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to perform their latest musical.

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Shrewsbury School is taking its musical The Drowned Bride to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Written by Helen Brown, head of drama, and John Moore, head of music, The Drowned Bride is based on Daphne du Maurier’s best-selling gothic romance novel, Rebecca.

The musical follows a naive and lonely young woman who meets a mysterious widower in the glamorous surroundings of the French Riviera, only to discover that his past conceals a dark and dangerous secret.

The story beings in Monte Carlo, where the unnamed heroine is working as a paid companion to a ghastly American snob, Mrs Van Hopper.

Mrs Van Hopper is delighted when she spots a glamorous and mysterious widower across the bar.

Shrewsbury School is taking its musical The Drowned Bride to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Despite her youth and naivety, Max begins to pay marked attention to the heroine, taking her for drives along the coast and secretly dining with her every night.

Utterly swept off her feet, the heroine finds herself married and living in an enormous estate in Cornwall.

However, the house seems haunted by the presence of Max’s first wife, the beautiful and enigmatic Rebecca.

Shrewsbury School has been performing original musicals at the Edinburgh Fringe for over twenty years, including Jekyll, The Bubble, What You Will and The Lost Domain.

The Drowned Bride will be performed at the famous festival every day from August 20 to 25 at Paradise in Augustines.

The show received rave reviews from audiences when it was performed in workshop in the Ashton Theatre at Shrewsbury School in February.