Taking on The Chocolate Frog (ATOM Study Guide)

Taking on The Chocolate Frog is a documentary series of three one-hour episodes that follows a group of ex-criminals and individuals with troubled pasts as they reinvent themselves as actors on the stage. Performing a play by one of Australia's award-winning playwrights, Jim McNeil, can the cast take on The Chocolate Frog and succeed? The group will be challenged to stage the play in front of theatre critics, an A-list audience, family and friends inside the very place where the play was written.

Guided by actor, agent and drama coach Grant Thompson, the series follows the remarkable journey of a group of people with troubled pasts to stay the course and perform on stage. Following the emotional journey of Grant and his cast, the series also illustrates the story of McNeil, who as well as being an award-winning playwright was also one of Australia's most violent criminals from the 1960s.

Taking on The Chocolate Frog has relevance to studies of Drama.