The Happiest Days Of Your Life

By John Dighton

Performed: March 2006

The story is set at the end of WWII. The pupils and teachers of a South Coast girls' school, St Swithin’s, are relocated to alternative accommodation as their own school has been a casualty of wartime bombing.

Thanks to a bureaucratic mix-up, they wind up sharing the quarters of a boys' school, Hilary Hall, in Hampshire.

The harried headmaster and headmistress, together with both sets of teachers, try to keep visiting parents from discovering the dilemma as the whole thing turns into a battle of the sexes.

These problems are forgotten however when news is received that a third school is to join them and all unite to repel boarders.