The 2022 Play Series could easily be passed as a true theatre experience with our budding College performing artists creating and presenting four production series that were rich and profound.

This year’s Play Series were made up of five classes performing four plays over the course of three weeks at the Dance Studio in Term 2. They consist of our Senior College drama students who are performing their NCEA assessment pieces. Each year the production continues to push the boundaries with each play series becoming more sophisticated in narrative and delivery. With minimal props and costuming, the attention is on the actor and their stage craft, their ability to not only deliver their lines seamlessly but to use complex dramatic skills to fully engage their audience.

Head of the Drama Department Mr Dave Sheehan expressed tremendous pride for the drama department and its students. “Drama is a place of joy, creativity, collaboration and kindness, where we all strive to achieve our own unique brand of excellence. Some of our graduates move on to careers in the Performing Arts or as Drama Teachers. Our hope is that they carry with them the abilities to collaborate, create, communicate, negotiate and to work with commitment and grace as a member of a team, skills I believe can be mastered more thoroughly in Drama than any other discipline.”

Play Series Year 11 - The Monologue Show

The Monologue Show was a hilarious show of high school drama in its grittiest and most outrageous form with a collection of funny tall tales from a vibrant, enthusiastic and lively bunch. Set in a classroom, a room full of students aired their personal grievances and provided a glimpse into a life of a teenager; from staging couple break-up to the garden gnome thief confessing his crimes.

Play Series Year 11 - Oz

In Oz, our Year 11 students fully embraced every aspect of creating this show with their interpretation of a hilarious yet heart wrenching exploration of grief and perseverance on the road to acceptance.

Play Series Year 12 – The Caucasian Chalk Circle

This production was a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than his wealthy birth mother. The Caucasian Chalk Circle depicted German dramatist, playwright and director Bertolt Brecht’s vision of a new world order where human rights and rewards would be earnt rather than inherited.

Play Series Year 13 – Laramie Project

The Laramie Project is a 2000 play by Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project based on community reaction to the 1998 murder of student Matthew Sheperd which was denounce as a hate crime and brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in various states including Wyoming.

Congratulations to our all our drama students for their tremendous work and fabulous performances over three weeks.

Tags

• Drama,
• Performing Arts

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