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Production Rehearsal 2022

Introducing the leads for Nossal High School’s 2022 Production: An adaptation of J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan! The rehearsal for Peter Pan is underway and will be on stage in the Meath Auditorium from July 14 to 16, watch this space for regular updates on the rehearsal process! Hope you are excited for this show as we are! The show has a large cast of Lost Boys and Pirates and the show will feature dancing from Nossal’s own K-Pop Club!  

If you are a parent or member of the community and you’d like to assist with the creation of Peter Pan, please do not hesitate to contact Mr Woon via email: shane.woon@nossalhs.vic.edu.au. 

Help can come in the form of costume donation, assisting with bringing together the set or helping us to source props!  Or maybe you are more of an onstage helper, we would appreciate any help with the rehearsal process! Get in touch if you are interested in helping out!  

Left to Right: Lina Afanasyeva (Michael Darling), Noah Dorling (John Darling), Chanumi Nakandala (Wendy Darling), Nathan Orrell (Captain Hook), Max Richards (Smee), Jack Moeller (Peter Pan) & Evalyn Bui (Tinkerbell). Not pictured: Cecilia Liu as Tigerlily.  

Theatre Sports Heats ‘22 – An Overview, the Highs and Lows 

It can be daunting to go on stage in front of 200 people and have to make things up on the spot. However, that is what 40 students, including myself, did this week. Nossal hadn’t held a Theatre Sports for the last two years, so most of us had no idea what we were signing up for, but we were all pleasantly surprised. The heats were held over two days during lunch. On the day, each team, which constituted of people from each year level, took turns to play four games where we were given several different scenarios, with only 20 seconds to plan our performances. As you can imagine, we didn’t get much planning done, so we had to make up most of what we were doing on the spot. We had to use our wits, creativity, and at times, our singing voices and pirouetting skills to keep an entire audience entertained. Even though we had no idea what we were doing half the time, we had loads of fun and were able to (occasionally) come up with some pretty great ideas that kept the audience, judges and Mr Woon laughing hysterically. I’m very much looking forward to watching Pegasus and Garuda fight it out for third place following Monday and the finals next Thursday between Griffin and Phoenix (Go Griffin!). Everyone who competed and/or cheered did a fantastic job representing their house, showing off their amazing acting skills. This was an incredibly memorable experience that I would recommend to any student looking to challenge themselves and act a little goofy on stage. 

Elena Sarandeva

 Year 10