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This is the website of writer, director and teacher, Phil Tong and focuses particularly on work with students at the City of London Freemen's School and on the progress of the many professional actors he has taught throughout his career.Drama is at the very heart of the cultural life at CLFS and this website is published, in part, to give expression to that work and to celebrate the creativity of the students who study at the school.Want to see what's new in Drama at CLFS then click on the BREAKING NEWS button on the top bar !The Department aims to achieve the very highest standards in theatre making and consequently in the examination results the students achieve. A professional approach to theatre craft and to 'integrity and truthfullness' in performance is something that is encouraged from the beginning of all Drama courses, and the outcome is that students from this school have achieved some of the best examination results in Drama in the UK over the last few years.We achieved a Good Schools' Guide Award for the Best 'A' Level Results for Girls in the UK in 2005 and have created some of the very best theatre seen in UK schools in the last ten years. Last year, in 2008, we took 'The Withering' to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; a play based on a Thomas Hardy short story; a show which gained 'Sold Out' status with the Fringe Society, and which The British Theatre Guide described as '... a superb adaptation... and whilst this well directed, studied performance stands alone as a first rate youth theatre show, it will be exciting to see the future of such stage potential.
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