Game Over – Filmed Production (Vimeo Stream or DVD)

Game Over by Mark Wheeller
Filmed Production (Vimeo Stream)

A powerful new 2025 youth production of Mark Wheeller’s Game Over, performed by Brighton Little Theatre Youth Group and filmed on location at Brighton College.

This high-impact verbatim play explores online gaming, social media and the dangers of online grooming, drawn from real-life events. Honest, accessible performances from a youth cast make this filmed version especially resonant for school audiences.

About this filmed version

• Full-length performance of Game Over

• Performed by Brighton Little Theatre Youth Group

• Filmed at Brighton College in 2025

• Streamed via Vimeo for easy classroom access

The production offers clear sightlines, strong ensemble work and moments of intimate, focused staging that bring the testimony-based text to life. It’s an ideal way for students to experience the play as live theatre, even if a trip to the theatre isn’t possible.

For classroom and school use

The Game Over Vimeo stream is designed for:

• GCSE and KS4 Drama – text in performance, live theatre review, devising from a stimulus

• PSHE, safeguarding and digital citizenship – starting honest conversations about online risk

• CPD for non-specialist drama teachers – a model of contemporary verbatim / documentary theatre

• Assemblies and enrichment – a thought-provoking shared viewing experience

If you are already using the Game Over play text or scheme of work, this filmed version is a perfect companion resource, helping students connect what they read on the page with what they see on stage.

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Game Over by Mark Wheeller
Filmed Production (DVD)

A DVD recording of the Beaumont School production of Game Over, performed at the Trestle Arts Base, St Albans, is available from Salamander Street for schools that require a DVD  copy.  Purchase now for £19.99

Suitable for: Key Stage 3/4, GCSE, BTEC, A-Level to adult
Duration: 75 minutes approximately
Cast: 24 characters total.

‘The young performers worked as an ensemble…they were engaged and engaging.  Matthew Sims, who played LD (Lewis), was brilliant: creepy, scary, insidious. When he put his arm round Breck and his face up close to him it made me shiver with the gullibility that Tom Fletcher (Breck) showed. It was typical controlling behaviour. I found the choral speech very powerful and was impressed at how the students portrayed deep emotions.’

Vivienne Lafferty, Trustee National Drama Reviewing the Beaumont School production.