Also under consideration was Jason Wallace's dark school story, Out of Shadows, which drew on his own memories of being sent, a dislocated British child, to boarding school in 1980s Zimbabwe.
We had to bury him along the way," recalled Rani, sitting in a dark school corridor where she took refuge along with her three children and mother-in-law.
"They say, 'Why don't you find a sponsor?' " she said, dressed in her dark blue school uniform and looking very young.
After dark, schools can be heard chasing each other, boiling on the surface of the river, as the males compete for females.
No, they're of the pressing-boxes-in-the-dark school, eschewing Ronson's special-guest bonanzas for taped appearances from Noel Gallagher (Setting Sun), Q-Tip (Galvanize) and Kele Okereke (Believe), letting their monstrous beats provide the fireworks.
Instead, what she finds is a trudge through the cold dark, to a dingy school with desks in rows and an old-fashioned chalkboard — not an iPad or interactive whiteboard in sight.
Some classrooms are very dark; Regular school maintenance is a key issue; There are many multi-grade classes in rural schools.
The raw passions of girlhood are revealed in Abbott's dark high school thriller.
Walt would get up for work in the dark, before school, and on Sundays he had a double load, which meant skipping church.
She added that while nearly all of Scotland's 32 local authority areas currently conduct some form of standardised assessment to monitor children's progress, the tests were not consistent, leaving ministers effectively in the dark about school performance.
While the company does produce smaller productions of new plays — including this year's "Distracted," a comedy about the attention-addled Internet age, and 2007's "Speech & Debate," a dark high school romp — the company's mainstage slate generally features stalwarts like "Waiting for Godot," "Hedda Gabler" and "Pal Joey".
