Performing Arts

 

Drama Excursions

There will be no Drama Excursion for Year 9 & 10 on 16 March. Instead Year 10 & 11 Drama will be heading to the Seymour Centre on Friday 20 March to see Sport for Jove’s "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. This is an incursion and we will leave school at 8.45 am.  Please see attached permission letter.  

“IT IS MESMERISING, HARROWING AND WILL STAY IN YOUR MIND AND HEART LONG AFTER IT’S OVER.”

Diana Simmonds,    Stagenoise

"Originally presented in 2014 to rave reviews and sold-out audiences, Damien Ryan’s reprisal production of "The Crucible" offers audiences a rare, immersive and immensely detailed vision of this great play. Lit by fire, an exceptional cast turns the heat up in a story as relevant today as when Arthur Miller wrote it. Miller’s parable of mass hysteria draws a savage parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692–“one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history”– and the McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s.

A searing exploration of persecution through ignorance, fear of ‘otherness,’ and our capacity to serve ourselves above all others, "The Crucible" reflects the ordinary evils latent in every society, and is one of the world’s most timelessly relevant stories."

Ms Penny Lindley - Drama Teacher

 

Open Day

A big thank you in anticipation for all the ensembles who are performing on Open Day. Hopefully we will have clear skies. If there is rain ensembles will still be performing as a wet weather plan will be in operation.

 

Rehearsal Attendance

I ask that if students are going to be absent from rehearsals that parents send an email to their Ensemble Director. It is crucial that we know where students are at all times especially at rehearsal time. I will be asking Ensemble Directors to contact parents regarding unexplained absences.

 

Performing Arts Calendar Term 1

We are entering peak assessment time for all our music classes. There are some opportunities to see your sons perform in Year 9 to 12. Please direct your attention to the Performing Arts Calendar for Term 1 below.

Mr Anthony Timmins - Performing Arts Coordinator