CedarBridge Academy students are to take part in a variety show entitled Works In Progress.

Student spokesperson Verlicia Scott said that the show was called Works in Progress because many of the performances were just that.

"It will involve around 200 students from the dramatic society, music and dance groups," said the Devonshire teenager.

"The production is also the students' final exam."

Verlicia said students who were not performing be helping to publicise the event, usher, do the lighting, design the sets, run the sound, make costumes and collect tickets.

She said: "I am part of the technical side of the show and also the publicity part.

"On the first night I will be doing sound and on the second night I will be taking part in a skit called 'Why Me?'."

Verlicia said that the skit was about a girl facing serious choices about her life.

"The skit is about a girl, who is into drugs and alcohol, but the whole skit is in her mind," said the teenager, who wants to become a forensic psychologist.

"She is confronted with the drugs and her friends."

Verlicia said she had been part of a few school productions and that she especially enjoyed drama, because it allowed her to be someone that she was not.

She said that although she did not write the play she is acting in, she had written a play in the past.

"Some of the plays have been written by the kids," said Verlicia. "And for others it is their first time ever performing."

Student Susan Madeiros said she is working on the lighting on both nights of the show.

Susan,15, is currently working with Richie Latham learning lighting.

She was also involved in the pantomime Cinderella before Christmas. She wants to study technical theatre at university, because she feels that she can be creative in generating images through lighting.

The show is on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at the Ruth Seaton James Auditorium. Admission is $5 and the show begins at 6.45 p.m.