Drama News

Welcome back! I trust everyone has had a restful break and perhaps enjoyed some of what’s on offer at The Sydney Festival, a musical, a play or perhaps some of the excellent entertainment available from our streaming services. The Arts certainly enrich our lives and have been a great comfort in the precarious times we have recently navigated.

I was able to spend some terrific nights in the theatre – The Merry Widow at Opera Australia, HMS. Pinafore at Parramatta Theatres, My Brilliant Career at Belvoir, Pippin at The Lyric and The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Sydney Theatre Company. Spending the evening in a mask and socially distanced must make for an interesting view from the stage, however it’s comforting to see theatres take these precautions.

At SCEGGS we look forward to presenting Olivia Satchell’s play PRETTY.STRANGE in November.

Fangirls

Old Girl Yve Blake’s musical Fangirls is making a return season to Belvoir Theatre playing at the Seymour Centre through February.

The Year 10 Drama class will be attending a performance on Wednesday February 17 at 6:30. Students will receive information pertaining to the excursion in class next week.

An early reminder to parents that students will need to have a mask for the theatre.

Griffin Theatre Ambassador

Congratulations to Year 11 student Olivia Dennison who has been appointed to the Griffin Theatre Ambassador program. The program allows students from schools to participate in workshops and observe plays in their 2021 season. Applications for participation are called for in November of each year.

Things I Know To Be True

Ms Vivienne Rodda will be “treading the boards” this term when she joins Castle Hill Players in their production of Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to be True. We wish Ms Rodda all the best for rehearsals and a successful season of the play. Ms Rodda will also be directing our production of PRETTY.STRANGE in Term 4.

St Peter’s Players

A reminder that St Peter’s Players classes will begin in week 3 on Monday February 8.

The Semester 1 timetable and enrolment form are available. Please peruse the classes available and complete enrolment. I draw your attention to a new class conducted by Liv Satchell – Writing for Stage and Screen. This is an Open class and will be conducted via Zoom. The day and time for the class will be decided with participants after enrolment.

If you take a child to the theatre, not only will they practise empathy, they might also laugh uproariously, or come home singing about science, or want to know more about history, or tell you what happened at school today, or spend all dinner discussing music, or learn how to handle conflict, or start becoming future patrons of the arts.

Lauren Gunderson -Playwright

Peter Eyers
Head of Drama