THE ARTS

TOP CLASS Excursion/Workshop

During Periods 5  and 6, Ms Cumming ran a workshop with everyone about recognising, accepting, and overcoming our performance nerves.

Ms Duncan then ran us through the assessment criteria for solo performances, before the Unit 1 students performed for the Unit 3 students, who gave us feedback to ace our Solo Performance SAC's.

We were also lucky enough to have a visit from a past student who talked to us about the Unit 3 & 4 course and how to overcome possible hiccups in the road to success.

We then had the opportunity to watch the top-scoring group performances from 2015 at the Melbourne Recital Centre as a part of the VCE Top Class series. This gave us an insight into what is expected from us when completing Unit 3 & 4 Music, and hopefully, the musicians we aspire to become.

Thank you to the teachers, students, and performers for the insightful experiences.

Celeste Wells - Year 11

VCE Music Performance Unit1 student

VCE Theatre Studies Production - COSI 

For their first Outcome for Unit 3, students of the VCE Theatre Studies class are required to put on a production. They are solely responsible for all aspects of the production process, from direction, to budgeting, to lighting, sound, costume and make-up.

This year, the VCE Theatre Studies class proudly present Australian playwright Louis Nowra’s, ‘Cosi’.

Performance Dates

Monday 11 April

6.30 pm - 9 pm

Tuesday 12 April

6.30 pm – 9 pm

Lilydale High School

P1 Theatre Classroom    (At the quarry end of the Melba Avenue car park)

Tickets

$5 Adults

$3 Students & Pensioners

To purchase tickets, please visit the school website homepage.

Please arrive 10 minutes prior to show time.  Both performances will have a short interval.

PLEASE NOTE

This play contains themes of an adult nature and some low coarse language.  These performances are not recommended for anyone under the age of 14.

VCE Theatre Studies class

• Ash Basham
• Will Crooke
• Kayla Gialelis
• Nick Howell
• Mitch Jackson
• Maddy Kinneavy
• Jess Koncic
• Hayden Pierson
• Mitch Rinke
• Josh Schneider
• Em Svarnias
• Nathan Ward
• Chelsea Williams

What is the play about?

It’s 1971 in Melbourne, and a young political protestor, Lewis, fresh out of University, is hired to direct a play in a mental asylum. He needs the money and he thinks himself quite the Creative.  However, Lewis is quickly overthrown by the overly enthusiastic, and dominating Roy, a patient determined to perform Mozart’s opera, ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ despite nobody being able to sing, and nobody knowing Italian.

Throw in people with addictive personalities, a dozy musician who’s obsessed with Wagner and a pyromaniac, and you have yourself a comedy of errors and a very overwhelmed Director.

Between protesting a war he doesn’t understand, and connecting with a group of people he understands even less, Lewis is torn, is love and loyalty more important than politics and war?

Halley Metcalfe

Theatre Studies teacher