On Sunday 24th March, selected members of our UIV (Year 9) took part in two thrilling performances of Flesh by Rob Drummond, and directed by our fantastic LAMDA teacher, Rebecca Cochran-Patrick. The play is our entry for the National Theatre Connections Festival, and our 7pm performance was visited by a director from the NT themselves.
On 12th February, 15 Year 12 girls gave their presentations at the RADA Studios in Chenies Street, London. These were in front of an audience and a panel of communications experts from RADA in Business, who then questioned them on their topics and gave feedback on their skills.
On 1st February, against the snow's best attempts, our GCSE and A Level students performed their Scripted Plays for their examined performances.
On 6th December, our Junior Drama Club, comprising girls from across the Fourth Form, were treated to a trip to Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatre to watch a fun-filled performance of The Borrowers to say thank you for all the hard work they have put in over the Autumn Term. The play takes the well-loved story of the little people beneath the floorboards and places it on stage in a crazy, inventive but wonderfully simplistic way.
This term, our Junior Drama Club girls have been working on small pieces of Children’s Theatre, inspired by stories from the BBC’s '500 Words' competition. The girls have performed at two local schools, St Margaret's Preparatory School and Holy Trinity Primary School, Calne, and have thrived in front of the young audiences.
The St Mary's UV (Year 11) Drama group fused Drama with learning on 4th December, when they visited Colerne Primary School to perform their TIE (Theatre In Education) plays. The class had spent a month devising 10-minute pieces with an appropriate moral message, each based on fairy or folk tales.
On 7th November, the GCSE and A Level Drama students went to see The Paper Birds’ performance of their piece Thirsty, a play which discusses our attitudes towards drinking in Britain. This was followed by a workshop on 12th November about how the piece was made.
This year has seen the introduction of the Scholars' Play weekend, for our Drama Scholars and Ambassadors from each year group to meet and be creative. The weekend was focused on creating a piece of immersive theatre which travelled around the school, with each separate audience having a unique experience of the play.
The Delscey Burns Theatre played host to buzzing electric fairies in the week before Half Term. They were part of the school's production of Shakespeare's classic magical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which played on the Thursday and Friday after a rapturous, packed dress rehearsal the night before.
His Dark Materials, this year's visually spectacular Junior Play, was performed by LIV and MIV (Years 7 and 8) on 28th and 29th June in the theatre. The script by Nicholas Wright, originally staged at The National Theatre, is based on the epic trilogy of novels by Philip Pullman.
On Thursday 3rd May, our LV and LVI students performed their GCSE and A Level devised pieces for an invited audience.
On Thursday 19th April, students of GCSE and A Level Drama took a trip to the theatre in Chipping Norton to see a production of Giant by Zoo Co Theatre Company.
