Kristin School's Year 13 Drama students present their production of 'Coraline'. Inspired by the 2002 British dark fantasy children's novella, this increasingly dark tale invites the audience into a world that helps us to learn valuable lessons alongside its central character.

The story follows Coraline Jones, a young girl who has just moved with her parents into a new flat in an old house. Bored by her colorless surroundings and her busy parents, Coraline goes exploring and discovers a door unlike any in the house – a magic door that, when unlocked, reveals a passage to a strange world like her own, but with one key difference: all the grownups have black buttons for eyes. This new world seems to offer all she wants: parents who are keenly interested in her, toys that sing and dance, neighbors who get her name right. But as this parallel world becomes increasingly unsettling, Coraline must learn the true meaning of bravery to save her parents and herself.