The photograph does indeed show the cast of a school play written and directed by Tony Weekes-Pearson - 1961. As I recall, this particular play was called "Rehearsal" - not to be confused with a play by, I think, Jean Genet, called "The Rehearsal" and had its genesis in a 1 - act play A.W-P. wrote for the House Play competition the previous year. I suspect ( I am one of the boys in short trousers and glasses in the front row. A.W-P. taught my class at the time (2A2?) and roped us all in. Basically, it revolved around the rivalries within a school that emerged during an Inter - House drama contest, and contained references to film, TV, and theatre. One of the highlights for me was Murray Simpson as an amalgam of Henry 5th/Richard 3rd rushing onto the stage to the strains of Waltons music from Henry 5th and then reciting a speech which, although containing lines from a number of Shakespeare plays made perfect sense (some of the older members of the cast could identify them all).

This play was a break from tradition, as the normal practice was to do the current "A" level set book, and I think there was some opposition within the school to it being done at all. A.W-P. wrote it as "Joe Girvan" but it was patently obvious that he had written it. It was also fiendishly difficult to stage, with a very large cast and (for the time) very sophisticated technology.

A.W-P. left Selhurst soon afterwards to teach at Hazlewick School, Crawley - I was one of a group from Selhurst that went to Crawley in November 1963 to see another production of his "A Match to Fire The Thames" - I remember that evening well, because it was the night that John Kennedy was assassinated!

Update February 2007
Roger Cox (1953-1960):

I left Selhurst for work after my A levels in July 1960. Tony Weekes-Pearson was one of my English teachers, and an excellent one, and also introduced me to cross country running, a sport at which he, himself, was an accomplished performer. I became school cross country captain for the 1959/60 season. AJWP got me into his club, Blackheath Harriers, and I kept in touch until I went to Yorkshire in 1964. I saw the very enjoyable play in the school hall, but cannot now remember the title. The accompanying music was chosen by the delightfully eccentric music master, Terry James, mostly from Kodaly's Hary Janos suite. In the full cast photograph, Tony Weekes- Pearson is the one in glasses and pullover standing centre stage. I believe he left the school to become a schools inspector with Bromley Council, A very nice, gifted man.

UPDATE March 2008: Iain Gordon (1957-1963) has identified some names in the two pictures below.
Pic 1:- Far right - Lovett
Pic 2:- Boys in close proximity to AWP - O'Connor, Pullen, Ling, Stanway,
Faircloth.

UPDATE June 2008: Colin Marsh (1959-66) also supplied us with a copy of the picture

Update May 2009
Chris Rand (1959-1966) I had spoken to Tony recently. "...the point Tony wanted to make was that by leaving out the "the" it made the name of the play more punchy - Rehearsal. However I do have one minor spanner to throw in the works, and that is that I believe the date was 1961, not 1962. I started Selhurst in Sept 1959 in 1W. In Sept 1961 I started in 3A2 and that was my final year at Scarbrook Road. I very clearly remember that we used to travel from Scarbrook Road to the Crescent for rehersals. The Choir in "Rehersal " was drawn from 3A2, whom Tony tried to teach English. The play was performed in the Autumn term, therefore logic says the play was in autumn 1961