Drama
“Acting…must aim to lift life up to a higher level of meaning
and not tear it down or demean it. The actor’s search is a generous
quest for that larger meaning.” – Stella Adler
Ensembles
Drama Ensembles meet one morning per week for each of the Years 7, 8 and Open groups. Ensembles are dedicated to performance and lead to public performance. Their content is determined by the girls’ own interests and range from quality prewritten texts to self-devised works. The girls will develop their acting skills throughout the year through improvisation, play building and script work.
Major Production
As part of a long-standing and evolving tradition, each year the College produces a major work for which students from any Year are eligible to audition. In an especially demanding schedule, it begins preproduction in either Term 2 or Term 3 of one year and is realised in Term 1 of the following year. Every second year this production is a musical, which is most often a co-production with St Augustine’s College. Past performances have included:
- Guys and Dolls
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Our Town
- Romeo and Juliet
- In the Heights
- As You Like It
- The Crucible