Theatre Studies

Top Class 2019

Approximately 1700 students from around Victoria selected Theatre Studies as one of their Year 12 VCE subjects in 2018, all of whom needed to complete an individual monologue in Semester 2 of last year. This outcome task requires students to study a prescribed monologue for 3 months, with a focus on either Acting and Directing or Designing. This process would culminate in a one-off, live performance in front of three examiners, where the student would be graded on their interpretation, research and performance. If a student receive an A+ they are invited to audition for Top Class, which is a showcase of the best VCE monologue perform the following year. The showcase gives the following year’s Theatre students the opportunity to view what the examiners judge to be the top students from across the state. An invitation to audition places them amongst the top 60 students in the state and, if selected for the Top Class showcase, they will be in the top 25 students from the total Theatre Studies cohort of 1700 - a simply amazing result!

Kew High School Performing Arts Department are absolutely ecstatic to celebrate the selection of Rachel Nankin in the 2019 Top Class showcase; the first Theatre Studies student to be awarded this honour in the school’s rich performing arts history. The acknowledgment of Rachel’s success from the examiners places her in the top 2% of the state, which is quite simply outstanding!

Congratulations, Rachel!