The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American production written and directed by John Hughes. The film has become a cult classic and has had a tremendous influence on many coming of age films since then. The storyline follows five teenagers (each a member of a different high school clique) as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes.  

Leo Sama, artistic director of PIER 21 Productions, who believes that the strong messages in the film are still valid today, adapted the script for the stage; he takes it a step further with a recreation of characters that resemble more our teenagers, those living in Montreal’s East End Community.  

The plot follows five students at a fictional high school as they report for Saturday detention. While not complete strangers, the five teenagers are all from a different clique or social group. The five, who seem to have nothing in common at first, come together at the high school library, where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats by the antagonistic principal Mr. Vernon. 

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