Drama
Young Belvoir Theatre Club
Halcyon Hunt, our 2024 Redlands Arts Captain has recently applied for and been accepted into the Young Belvoir Theatre Club, one of Australia’s most distinguished and beloved theatre companies. The club is an opportunity to meet like-minded peers and learn more about how theatre is made. The experience includes: attending performances, enriched by the conversations created around our work; either with other club members, family and friends and even with some Belvoir professional performance artists themselves in pre-show talks.
Members also attend Belvoir productions as an audience member with club peers and are also invited to participate in workshops and activities throughout the year.
Halcyon has been involved in theatre making and productions her whole life, inside Redlands and externally, as well as going to a number of workshops with Belvoir and other Theatre companies such as NIDA. She has also just finished her professional training in AMTA: professional musical theatre training course which she has been participating in every Sunday for the last two terms.
Last year Redlands was thrilled to have two students who also were accepted into the membership of Young Belvoir’s Theatre Club, Charlotte Waterland and Marcus Cooper-Hor. Charlotte speaks very highly (and I might add articulately) of the theatre she viewed, and the incredible experiences she participated in. She is using many of the concepts and ideas to form the basis of her approach to many of her IB Theatre task, whilst Marcus has extended this into his skills in production.
LeCoq Workshops Hone Skills and Build Links to Exciting Theatrical Engagement
On 1 Feb, the Yr 11 & 12 HSC Drama and Yr 11 & 12 IB Theatre cohorts got to attend a range of workshops showcasing the theories and work practice of Jaques LeCoq. These workshops were led by Kate Walder. Kate is a wonderful physical theatre director, performer, movement director and writer. Since graduating from Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, she has worked across a range of theatrical contexts but focussed primarily on the creation of new works across Australia and internationally. Students eagerly participated using a range of techniques and explored the concepts that are at the heart of all movement and theatre making. These included: Rhythm, Fixed point, Tension, Tempo, Architecture of space with consideration of scale, axes, composition and layering. Students are now excited to apply and experiment with these new performance experiences in their Collaborative Projects and devising.
Ms Kathryn Smith
Acting Subject Coordinator of Drama and Theatre
ksmith@redlands.nsw.edu.au