Drama

2020 is set to be another exciting and action packed year for all things Theatre and Drama.  We have lots of opportunities available for students to experience and be involved with Drama throughout the year, develop confidence, creativity, and performance and ensemble skills, and nurture friendships.

This year we have the following cocurricular opportunities for students:

Drama Club (Wednesday Lunch)

Junior Theatresports (Friday Lunch)

Senior Theatresports (Tuesday morning before school)

Drama X Ensemble (Tuesday afternoon).

We are also continuing to build our connections to theatre companies in Brisbane through our Year 10 Drama class’s involvement in the Scene Project with Queensland Theatre Company, and the Drama X Ensemble partnering with La Boite Theatre as part of the LB Riot program.  Through each of these programs students will be encouraged to engage in the creative process of performance, from rehearsal through to presentation, and work with industry artists including actors, directors, and playwrights.

Our Junior and Senior Theatresports teams will compete against other schools across Brisbane in the Youth Theatresports Competition run by the Comedy Club.  The Festival contains up to sixteen heats, six quarter-finals, three semi-finals, and a final.  Heats and Semis start at 7.00pm and go for about two hours.  Venues are at various schools around Brisbane. 

Theatresports is improvised theatre entertainment played as a spectator sport.  Teams of players invent scenes from suggestions they are given, while following particular sets of rules we call 'games'. Everything is made up on the spot - the lights, music, dialogue, mime, and song.  The teams are judged on their ability to follow the rules of each game, deliver a cohesive story line, and entertain the audience.  Theatresports delivers a vast variety of different theatrical styles: opera, comedy, drama, mime, and poetry can appear all in the one show.  It is fast-paced, unpredictable, and hilarious.  Best of all, it’s fun.

Leading our cocurricular opportunities this year are:

Drama Captains: Therese DeBellis and Emily Stitt (Year 12)

Theatresports Captain: Hannah Schaper (Year 11)

At the end of Term 3 there will also be a Drama Showcase evening to celebrate the work of students across both classroom Drama and Cocurricular Drama.  Further information around dates and times for this Showcase will be made available towards the end of this term.

Elise Cohen

Teacher