The play, I Am Who I Am, follows a character called Rachael who is being bullied at school. The young people had just 10 weeks to devise, script, perform and direct the play with the help of Wigan Council and the local Connexions. The young people gave their debut performance at a high school last month.
Rachael Wilding, 17, who plays the central character in the play who is being bullied, said: "Ideally, we want to take this into lots of high schools, because that is where a lot of bullying happens."
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