Co-Curricular Drama

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

The dramatic year opened with the Boyne House, College Lawn and Queen’s House Play, an innovative retelling of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. The highly enjoyable evening featured six short plays, some well well-known such as ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and other more obscure titles such as ‘Donkey Cabbage’. The cast featured nearly 70 cast and crew members and played to two packed- out audiences.

The Variety Show

The ever-popular Variety Show saw its usual mix of comedy sketches, music, singing and dancing. This wonderful event acts as a reminder of how supportive our community is of nurturing young talent and raising money for charity. All of the ticket sales went to supporting The Shamrock School, Nepal and Gogar Primary School, Kenya.

Great Expectations

This year’s Scholars’ Play, Great Expectations, saw two sold-out performances at the cobweb-adorned Playhouse Theatre. It is always a thrilling experience for our performers getting on this stage. Finn Cutts led the company with a tour de force performance as Pip, demonstrating remarkable skill by remaining on stage for the entire two-hour production, pushing himself to exhausting heights. The talented ensemble worked together and brought the ghostly tale to life.

1984

This year our Upper College play was a radical reworking of the dystopian classic 1984. It was wonderful to see a cast and crew of more than 35 drawn from Fifth Form, Lower and Upper Sixth bring this frightening vision of the future to life. The use of thrust staging helped create an immersive experience and the playing of multi-roles by the cast helped establish the idea of the play within the play. It was a challenging piece of theatre that pushed our most able actors.

Theatre Under the Tree

An entertaining evening of monologues and duologues, Theatre Under the Tree showcased LAMDA and Drama Club’s work over the year. The evening was packed with drama, comedy and tragedy with pupils bringing both classical and modern characters to life with remarkable passion and skill. A truly entertaining and memorable evening.