Students turn back the decades with a throwback 80s production.

A TOTAL eclipse transformed academy students into leg warmer-wearing, Rubicks cube-playing kids in America as they headed Back to the 80s.

Trinity Academy, in Thorne, rewound three decades for its neon-lit annual production with a cast of students from Year 7 to Year 10.

The three-night run of Back to the 80s, adapted from a book by Neil Gooding, was set in William Ocean High School.

Head of performing arts and show director Mel Cutler explained: "It's a classic tale of girl wants the popular boy in school but the boy turns out to be not very nice, while the nice boy struggles to catch the girl's eye.

"It all comes right in the end at the Prom where they dance to I've Had the Time of My Life."

The female lead, Tiffany, was played by Jasmine Clarke and the characters of Corey and Michael Feldman were played by Leon Chen and James Baines.

Phillip Gwynn's character Feargal McFerrin was the school nerd who predicts a future of CDs, personal computers and the worldwide web, only to be ridiculed by the other kids.

The action was supported by tracks from the era by Kim Wilde, Lionel Ritchie, Bonnie Tyler and Cyndi Lauper.