All young school children know full well what to expect when they arrive at school each day. Imagine arriving at school to find out that something very important was missing that day. Maybe there were no teachers, no school bell, no rules or even could it be that there is no custard in the canteen. Follow the adventures of Oscar and his friends as they go to school only to find that something is missing. Something is not just quite right. What could possibly be the reason?

Sophocles' play recounts an episode from the Trojan War, in which the wily Odysseus and Achilles' son Neoptolemus travel to a remote island to persuade Philoctetes to come with them to Troy. A prophet has foreseen that the Greeks will need Philoctetes and his bow (given to him by Heracles before his death) in order to defeat the Trojans. The problem is that years before Odysseus had engineered Philoctetes' abandonment on the island, due to a festering, stinking wound he had received from a...