City College Norwich actress storms the Edinburgh Fringe

An ex-CCN Creative Arts student will stage her latest play at a New York theatre after it won a prestigious award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Eloise Secker, 21, starred in the Pants on Fire theatre company's production of Metamorphoses at the Pleasance King Dome in Edinburgh.

She hoped it would bring in a small audience, but, to her amazement, it received rave reviews in national papers on both sides of the Atlantic and went on to won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award.
The well-respected award includes an all-expenses-paid deal to stage the production for a month in New York.

Miss Secker, whose family home is in Brooke, south of Norwich, has now handed in her notice with her job at a pilates centre to take up the opportunity.

The winning play is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, but set in the 1940s, with a Gorgon becoming a Gestapo-style interrogator, Icarus an RAF airman and Narcissus a Hollywood actor who falls for his own projected image.

Miss Secker, who went to Notre Dame High before taking a performing arts BTEC at City College Norwich, said: “We wanted to rework it and reset it. We set it in the 1940s because it was all about heroes and heroines and we wanted to bring that into the piece.”

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