Spotlight on Drama
Welcome back for a wonderful new year of learning opportunities for our school community. The drama department has hit the ground running this year with an excursion and reinvigoration of our extra-curricular activities. Want to know more? Take a look below.
Theatresports
Our Theatresports program resumes during Thursday sport this year. During this opt-in activity, students from the Junior grades are provided the opportunity to flex their creative, improvisational skills in front of their peers. Students are tasked with various competitive and non-competitive drama games that they have to respond to with no prior preparation.
It is an activity that builds confidence and character, but one that also allows students to be the centre of attention while showing off their humour. Students of all performing levels are encouraged to join and give it a shot!
Students who are interested in participating this year are encouraged to sign up via the GoogleForm on their Wellbeing classroom. Alternatively, they may contact Mr. Lewandowski or Ms. Rujicica.
Project Performance
Our after-school drama group Project Performance is set to resume in the near future during this term. This group provides students with opportunities to engage with a wide range of performance skills, but also as a workshop space to participate in a range of internal and external performance events. Last year participants of Project Performance had the opportunity to participate in the Sport For Jove Shakespeare Festival, Theatresport Challenge and Junior CAPA Night.
So whether you want to participate in some high-stakes performance, see yourself in the spotlight on stage, build your confidence, or just want to hang around and have fun with some drama games, Project Performance might just be for you.
More details are to follow in the upcoming weeks. Keep your eyes open for a registration form in the near future!
Group Devising Workshop and OnStage Excursion
On Wednesday the 12th of February, our Year 12’s had the wonderful opportunity to go on a double-feature excursion at the Seymour Centre. Starting the day with a Group Devising Workshop, our students were challenged to build a range of scenes from various prompts while being taught fundamental skills in group performances by current theatre professionals.
Led by members of the Little Eggs Collective, who are active performers, the Year 12’s found themselves having to work with a range of different faces and pushing the boundaries of their performative skills. It was truly an enriching experience that our Year 12’s are unlikely to forget!
This was followed up by a viewing of the 2025 OnStage program, alongside our Year 9 Drama Cohort. OnStage is a showcase of the top performing HSC Drama Major Works from the previous year. This includes not only Group Performance and Individual Performance, but the other design and critical based major work options provided by the HSC Drama Course. Students were able to view student costume designs from classic and contemporary plays, view dioramas of set designs, watch a video drama and even see a student-written script performed by industry professionals.
Excursions such as this are vital to giving students the worldly experience to push their creative boundaries and develop their critical thinking skills. As we were heading home, there was one consistent question from the Year 9 students: “Can we please go again next year?”
A big thank you to Ms. Rujicica and Ms. Tran for their assistance on the day.
Mr Nick Lewandowski
Head of Drama