She has a younger sister named Felicity, who comes to Malory Towers when Darrell moves up into the Fourth Form. They reached out over my inner city comprehensive education and have shaped my own beliefs and choices to this day.

In this pre-show talk, Wise Children’s Artistic Director Emma Rice will discuss channelling beloved children’s author Enid Blyton, infusing Malory Towers with her trademark theatricality, and transforming one of Bristol’s historic landmarks into Blyton’s infamous boarding school. There are scenes where they start to understand each other, but there are scenes where they’re glaring at each other in a bad way and plotting against each other to get the others in trouble – and it’s all because of Felicity.

I’ve been given leave to marry him before he goes, so at least I’ll have his name before things become obvious.

Her reckless behaviour gets the first form into trouble, but everything seems to be water off a duck’s back to her. The impression given was that the housemistress was not very troubled by my brush with rule-breaking.Most of our scenes were together, so we spent a lot of time with each other- I really enjoyed being with them because we have lots of inside jokes – it was great fun. She wrote about most other holidays, but Halloween perhaps wasn’t a big thing in Britain when she was writing. It is as grand and awe inspiring as Malory Towers itself and this amazing space, right next to Temple Meads stations, will come to life this summer.

I was really nervous when I first walked in because I didn’t know what to expect but as soon as I saw all of the girls in the cast we all started hugging. From the Very Hungry Caterpillar to Stick Man, we've got tons of suggestions to help your little one look the part.A simple pink dress will do for this one, or you can follow our step-by-step guide to make a no-sew tutu. However good the pastoral care is at a school, I don't see how house-parents can replace a loving parent or primary carer for our youngest children without risking negative psychological impact. Her own face was streaked with tears, which welled over her eyelids to trickle in a messy smear down her cheeks. This year, Ella Bright has been starring as lead character Darrell Rivers in the screen adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, with the show releasing in the UK in March on CBBC/iPlayer and has recently been released overseas. When it was time for me to run on for the scene, all the nerves went away and it was the most amazing feeling and I didn’t want it to end.