This term, with evening performances on July 11 and 14, the team at Ysgol Clywedog will be performing Murdered To Death, playwright Peter Gordon's spoof homage of Agatha Christie-style whodunnits of the 1920s and 30s.

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The plot reads very similarly to a game of Cluedo, with an assortment of suspicious characters - including a creepy butler, enormously wealthy spinster, terribly put-upon housekeeper, a retired colonel and a foreign art dealer - assembled in an English stately home, in the inter-war period. It is not long before gunshots are heard and an inept and bungling detective arrives, and hopelessly flounders around, trying to locate a suspect.

Students from every Ysgol Clywedog year group are taking part in this production.

The December audition panel - Governor Alicia Marie Owen, Steve Witherden and Governor Rev James Harris.

Subject leader for drama at the school, Stephen Witherden said: "We began work on this project in November, when we launched the play and gave out the audition extracts. In December, we held the auditions.

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"We normally have our school play auditions judged by a panel of myself, a school governor and an Ysgol Clywedog alumnus (ex-student) who has gone on to study drama in further education. However, on this occasion we had an audition judging panel of myself, Alicia Owen and Rev James Harris (all members of the Ysgol Clywedog governing body).

"The students coming through secondary school now were hit heavily by covid-19 lockdowns when they were in primary school.

Jay Williams, as Bunting the butler, Holly Valentine as Margaret Craddock, Jessica Barter as Joan Maple, Rhianna Edwards as Elizabeth Hartley-Trumpington, Paige Winter and Sophie Arthur as Inspector Pratt and Constable Thompkins.

"This has especially affected drama, when these students were in Years 5 and 6, when many nativity plays and similar productions never ran or were outright cancelled. Drama, as a subject, is still recovering.

"In having less dramatic experience to draw upon than previous year groups, has placed us slightly behind schedule and needing more time.

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"However, I am extremely lucky and privileged to be working with such a diligent and industrious cohort of pupils, who were willing to give up two holidays, enabling us to do both an Easter holidays rehearsal and a second holiday rehearsal over the Whitsun half term.

"I was and remain tremendously proud of these students for all of the hard work they have put in to this project."

• Tickets are available to the whole community, not just the parents and families of the Ysgol Clywedog students involved, and can be purchased either from the school office or on the door of the school drama studio, on the night.