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Play is a class act
Western Morning News
|January 08, 2026
NOVEL'S TOUCHING TALE OF FRIENDSHIP IS BROUGHT TO THE STAGE
THE acclaimed theatre adaptation of The Boy at the Back of the Class is back on the timetable - and set to start a new UK tour.
Children’s Theatre Partnership and the Rose Theatre are bringing Nick Ahad’s version of Onjali Q. Rauf’s award-winning novel back to the stage from February 6, and school was never so quite so entertaining.
This story is from the January 08, 2026 edition of Western Morning News.
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