College Information & Events
26 May
This year's Drama Ensemble is set to kick off tonight at 7.30pm in the Valda Ward Auditorium.
The ’Lost & Found’ performance structure is a new and yet untried structure that was developed and agreed to in the later stages of 2020. The students have embraced this complicated task that has become the launching pad for these students to create an original dramatic piece. It has provided rich opportunities for research, discussion, and creativity as they have built, developed, and refined a performance that reflects the nature of things that are lost, things that are found and all things in between.
The project is real and has significant and meaningful outcomes for these students. It has set goals and a structure, but the results can vary according to the day-to-day challenges (and there have been a few!) that come from working with other people who you must depend on. This of course correlates so strongly with the current and future corporate and workplace reality.
This task has been, as always, a long road travelled and has tested the students' concepts of hard work, commitment, professionalism, and humour in the face of adversity. It requires students between 17 and 18 years of age to become playwrights and to perform their own material. But it is so much more than that. It requires each student to work in a collaborative process, that must depend on open communication and working side by side in the good times and the bad, to produce a final result.
Get along and see them if you can and enjoy the rewards of their journey.