PRIMARY Seven pupils from Linwood thrilled audiences with their performance of Divided City.

More than 70 youngsters from Woodlands Primary School and Our Lady of Peace Primary School lit up the stage and showed off their fantastic acting skills.

The show is adapted from the award-winning novel by Theresa Breslin, who came along as a special guest. Pupils have been studying her book, which covers the issues of sectarianism and racism in Glasgow.

The youngsters took to the stage with an outstanding performance telling how two Glaswegian boys – Celtic fan Joe (played by Aiden Cooper and Andrew Edvaldsson) and Rangers fan Graham (played by Stephen Reilly and Martin Crawford ) – are both united and divided by football.

The pair are both in training for a new Youth Team Gold Cup with a chance to represent their city.

When Graham takes a different route home he witnesses a vicious racist attack on a young Muslim man is attacked in the street. Kyoul is an illegal refugee and needs to keep his identity a secret from the authorities. He is taken to hospital but is desperate to send a message to his girlfriend, Leanne.

The boys agree to take messages back and forth between the couple while Kyoul is in hospital.

Meanwhile, Graham is under pressure from his grandfather to attend an Orange march.

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