From the Head of Drama

Congratulations

A huge congratulations to the following students for their selection for inclusion in ATYP’s Intersection Festival.

The students are performing Tuesday 5th August at the Rebel Theatre in Sydney: Georgia Kustra, Milo Grant, Rosie Vaughan, Simeon Gee, Neva Stockwell, Callan Kobus

Link for tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/intersection-festival

Year 7 Living Picture Books – Creative Arts Day with Pre K, K and Year 1

On Tuesday 29/7/2025, Year 7 hosted a full day of creative arts activities and workshops for our friends from the Springwood and Wentworth Falls campuses. The day was filled with workshops in Drama, Dance and Visual Arts, with live performances.

Congratulations to Year 7 for your wonderful and enchanting work.

Thank you to the staff and teachers from the Junior Campuses for coming along and being part of what I like to call our ‘hopeful experiment’.

Big shout out to our specialist tutors on the day; Miss Evans (Dance), Ms Secker (Visual Arts) and Rebecca Matthews from Q Theatre (Drama).

Big thank you to our Year 10 and 9 helpers you were incredible – Lizzie Nealon-Cook, Olivia Laws, Dante Oliver, Chloe Stenberg, Ayla Mellor and Rosie Vaughan.

Thank you to Mrs Marlene Plummer for sharing your incredible knowledge and speaking to the students at the Kedumba Gallery.

Thank you to Miss Coote for her work with Year 7 also.

HSC Dates

Trial HSC performances/ projects – Thursday 7/8 12.30 – 3pm
Trial Written – Friday 15/8 12.30- 2pm.
Submitted Project deadline – Monday 25/8 3pm
HSC Performance and exhibition for family and friends – Thursday 28/8 PAC 6pm
HSC Performance Exam TBC

Cindy Pecovnik

Head of Drama

Year 11 Drama – Nepean Nexus

In Term 2, Year 11 Drama were honoured to be selected to be part of the Nepean Nexus Theatre Festival at the Q Theatre. Over 5 weeks they worked with an upcoming early career industry professional to create a new work to be performed on the professional stage at The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. The Q states that Nepean Nexus showcased “next generation storytelling powered by next level innovation and technology.”

Year 11’s work ‘Adrift’ was a truly sophisticated performance exploring the concept of feeling disconnected in our increasingly technology connected world. Using physical theatre, movement, song, and dialogue in 8 different languages, they told personal stories of their own experiences feeling adrift. Through the metaphor of (and physical creation of) Paper Boats floating, they were able to create connection between themselves and their audience.

In a moment of true theatrical bravery the performance ended with students leaving the stage via the audience, each handing a paper boat to an audience member as the lights came up inviting the audience to become part of both their performance and their connected world, Year 11 left the stage quietly, without fanfare, without the expectation of applause. Each of those boats had a personal message of hope and joy written on it. Their demonstration of powerful storytelling through silence and stillness was emotionally moving to the audience.

Year 11 were outstanding ambassadors for our school for the day, across two shows and in our time in the community.

Professional photos of Year 11 Drama students by Joe Wigdahl