Everybody expects the report to say they are a delight. They are very bright. They are pure as light. But they are small dogs, Headmistress. I must report what I see. They are small dogs in packs or pairs, doing what small dogs do.

E. V. Crowe's Kin, an intricate and anarchic view of ten-year-olds at a girls' boarding school in the 1990s, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2010.