Drama News

In Drama news this week, you may read about the wonderful House Drama day, drama productions with other schools and Co-curricular Drama opportunities.

House Drama

Congratulations to all on a superb day of Drama and House spirit at House Drama 2024. The energy, time and creativity invested in these original performances continues to astound.

What the students are able to achieve in four weeks is very impressive. The sense of theatricality brought to the day demonstrates wonderful collaboration and imagination. I have received many glowing comments from staff and students and the Judges, all who were genuinely impressed with the theatrical offerings on the day.

There will be some disappointment if your House did not fare as well as you’d hoped – but please know that every House achieved amazing things and you should be very proud of your contribution.

Bravo to the House leaders and committees. Leading a House in the House Drama event is particularly demanding. Much falls on the shoulders of the House leaders. Hopefully you can all reflect on your leadership of this project and recognise a personal growth and garnered knowledge to apply to projects of collaboration in the future. Your Houses are fortunate to have you as leaders.

The challenge this year was using an iconic board game to ignite an original piece of theatre.

Congratulations to Barton on their winning interpretation of Monopoly. In second place was Langley who brought the game of Guess Who to vivid life. And the Game of Life garnered Christian House third place. Docker (Mousetrap), Badham (Battelships) and Beck (Chess) continued the excellence of theatre with their celebrated entries.

A big thank you to our adjudicators Donna Lee, Octavia Barron-Martin and Eva Harris. And also to the many staff who assisted with the running of House Drama – Julia Piazza (Drama Captain & Host), Ms Goodfellow, Mr Hope, Mr Rogers, Ms Lynch, Ms Bolton, Ms Schwedes and Mr Colyer.

House Drama was conducted on Tuesday 27 February.

The School of Rock at Newington

Chookas to SCEGGS girls Nancy Newton (Year 10), Josephine Grayden (Year 9) and Francesca Emblin (Year 11) who take to the stage at Newington next week in their musical production The School of Rock by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The production runs from Wednesday March 6 to Saturday March 9. 

Co-Curricular Drama

St Peter’s classes have commenced for the year. Classes on offer are:

Our Senior production, Nell Gwynn, also went into rehearsal this week with production dates scheduled for June 12 to 15 in Term 2.

Peter Eyers
Head of Drama