Creative Arts - Drama

In Creative Arts and LOTE the students have engaged in learning in a number of ways. The Creative Arts Team have implemented the College Writing Initiative from years 7 to 10, and in this article we are looking at examples from Year 7 Visual Arts. There is a lot more going on, the T-block Hall is mid way through a face change and Studio 1 is in the process of installing Vive interactive equipment and transforming a space into a specialty digital media hub. We will now take a snapshot of the learning that is taking place in some of our classrooms...

DRAMA

Year 10 Drama have spent the term studying ‘Musical Theatre’, exploring the elements of musical theatre and putting them into practise. From ‘Annie’ to ‘Hairspray’ students have danced, sung and acted their way through the history of musical theatre its defining features. Students are currently working on a performance essay whereby they PERFORM an essay in response to a question which they created, using the Guided Inquiry Process.

Year 11 Drama in their first preliminary topic have covered Acting, Improvisation and Playbuilding. Across the three areas, students have explored practitioners including Meyerhold, Stanislavski and Grotowski. In addition, students have used The Viewpoints as a strategy for devising, focusing on physicalization of dramatic meaning, enriching their performances through movement and symbolic gesture.

Recently, Simon Templeton, Claudia Pertzel and Rogan Nicholson performed Station Five ‘Jesus, King of the Jews, stripped bare’ as part of ‘Walking the Way’ our college Easter Liturgy. Their group devised piece was verbatim inspired ‘reading’ the news of Jesus’ public stripping and whipping. Overall the piece was well received by the College community as an engaging piece of theatre.