Drama & Theatre Arts!

Poli 3 IB candidates and ES4 IGCSE candidates have now finished their Theatre Arts and Drama courses respectively. Over the past two years they have produced some remarkable practical work. We now wish them the best in their remaining exams.

Feo

On the 13th and 14th of September, ES1 and ES2 students presented Feo, a devised performance loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling. Through a series of vignettes, the piece explored the physical and emotional changes brought about by puberty, the changing relations between children and their parents during adolescence, nascent existential questions, and the tensions inherent in the search to fit in and the statement of individuality, among other issues.

Last week, ES3 IGCSE candidates recorded their first piece of devised coursework inspired by U2’s Some Days Are Better Than Others. Both the themes and formal qualities of their scripts were particularly impressive. They are now beginning work on their first text-based piece of coursework.

Last but no least, Houses have now began work on this year´s Drama Interhouse which will see ES5 students direct ES1 and ES2 students in productions of The False Turk in twelve minutes, a short play in the style of seventeenth-century commedia dell’arte. 

~ S. Kalhat, Drama & Theatre Arts