Drama News

Hello!

Welcome back everyone to a new year of Drama at SCEGGS. Honouring “the show must go on” tradition, we will be doing our best to ensure that the Drama Department is able to deliver an exciting year of projects and experiences that will inform, engage, and celebrate the creativity in us all.

We have planned a Junior (Years 7-9) Production in Term 2 and a Senior Production (Years 10-12) for Term 4. House Drama will take place in week 6 of Term 1. Our Drama Trip to Melbourne is set for the mid-term break in June, as well as assorted excursions and experiences throughout the year.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me at school regarding any of our activities. Students might also communicate their Drama thoughts through our Drama Captain. I welcome Allegra Sintras (Year 11) to this important role.

HSC Drama

Congratulations to the class of 2021 who were rewarded with stellar HSC Drama results. They employed terrific resilience and humour in navigating a precarious year. We look forward to their dramatic pursuits and accomplishments in the year ahead.

House Drama

Students will return to school to be met by House Leaders who have been working hard since last term, developing scripts and concepts that will form their entries into this year’s House Drama festival. Auditions will take place early in this term and then focussed rehearsals will fill lunchtimes and some after school sessions.

It is an exciting way to begin the year as older students welcome new arrivals to SCEGGS and guide them through a captivating project and a wonderful tradition.

House Drama takes place on Thursday 3 March.

Lend Us Your Ears

Students from Years 7, 8 and 9 will have the opportunity to audition for a play in week 3.

We will be presenting Lend Us Your Ears by Tony Taylor. The play is a Shakespearean romp which sees some of the Bard’s plays visited, when two Gamers are transported back in time to Elizabethan London.

An information session will take place tomorrow, Friday 4 February between 3:30pm and 4:30pm in The Playhouse. Please see Mr Eyers if you have any questions.

The Deb

Year 10 Drama students will be attending a performance of a new musical entitled The Deb on Sunday 15 May at 5.00pm. The excursion will inform a Theatre Review task for the course. Please put this date in your diaries.

Griffin Young Ambassadors

Congratulations to the following students who have been given a place in the Griffin Theatre Ambassador program. The students will be provided the opportunity to attend the Griffin season of plays and attend workshops with students from around the city:

Georgia McCormack, Eliza Newton, Anne-Marie Aroney and Isla Dawson-Damer.

St Peter’s Players

Our co-curricular program, St Peter’s Players, will begin in week 3. The classes available to secondary students are listed here. An enrolment form should be submitted to Mr Eyers.

The Primary program will be taught by Ms Poppy Lynch. Years 5-6 will take place on Monday afternoons and Years 3 -4 on Thursday afternoons. Primary parents should email Mr Eyers direct regarding classes as there is currently a waiting list.

Framed

You can still catch the junior production Framed!! created in isolation during 2021. Though we commenced rehearsals “on the floor”, working towards a staged performance, lockdown meant we had to be creative. We are so proud of what was able to be achieved using technology, imagination and terrific creativity.

Inter-school Performances

There are a number of SCEGGS students involved in upcoming inter-school perfomances. Congratulations go to:

• Lulu Thompson and Georgia McCormack who will be joining the cast of Dead White Males at Cranbrook School.
• Samantha Millin, Juliette Clark, Eva Harris and Jessica Millin have been cast in Shore School’s production of The Music Man.

Did you know?

Shakespeare’s Globe is the only building in London allowed to have a thatched roof since the Great Fire in 1666.

Peter Eyers
Head of Drama