YOUNG drama student Lucy Tutton of Brain's Green, Blakeney, is taking a Noel Coward play to a top international festival with a group of her friends.
Lucy, 20, who is studying for a BA Hons in Major Drama and Minor English at Brunel University in West London, is playing the part of Helen Saville in the period 1920s play Vortex, which she has also choreographed.
With 14 fellow students she will be off to the Liege Festival of Drama where the play will be staged on the auspicious leap year evening of February 29.
Gathering at the festival will be actors and companies from all over the world, including America and South America, Europe and the Pacific region.
Like Edinburgh, it will also have fringe productions which is where Lucy and her friends hope to make their marks with Vortex.
One of their tutors at college thought the group was so talented that he encouraged them to enter drama festivals and pointed them towards Belgium.
"I really like Noel Coward and this era, and Oscar Wilde," said Lucy, who wants to be an actress.
"I think a lot of people admire their work, but I was shocked when I found a lot of young people did not even know who Noel Coward was.
"We have tried to make the play very visual, because the audience is mainly French and there will be lots of people from other countries who come over with their own productions.
"After that we would like to stage this play and others in London and at other drama festivals, and hopefully we will be going to Edinburgh."
Before going to university Lucy studied performance arts at the Royal Forest of Dean College.