Drama and Theatre
Drama Competition
The Drama Competition will be held this term in a digital format. Students will be competing in the categories of comedy and drama with contemporary performance pieces. The final date for submission is Friday 28 August (Week 6). Judging will take place during Weeks 7 and 8 and the winners will be announced in Week 10. House points will be awarded for each submission.
Application forms and information is available here.
Yr 11 Workshops
This week all our Yr 11 Drama and Theatre students participated in physical theatre workshops with renowned New York Theatre company PUSH. Founding artistic directors and performers Darren and Heather Stevenson led our students though innovative and safe physical theatre techniques for our current climate. These enriching experiences took place over a Zoom link with New York during class time and will become part of our students devising approaches for future performance development.
Redlander News
Both Angus Konsti (2016) and Lochie Kent (2015) feature in work from NIDA this week.
Lochie Kent (Drama Captain 2015) features in NIDA’s Ghost Lights Project. As all performance venues across the world went dark during the COVID-19 crisis, the old tradition of the ghost light was revived – leaving on a single naked bulb on a stand to ensure that an empty theatre is never left in total darkness. Some of theatre’s great characters perform iconic monologues. Untethered from their plays and plots, they have broken out. They roam the empty theatres, trying to connect once again. But being lost, they are also free… and appear in guises that might surprise as they speak their new-found truths. Lachie’s performance as Puck can be seen here, with dates and times for the full performances at 7.30pm on 6, 8 and 9 August and 11.00am on 8 and 9 August.
Angus Konsti (Redlander 2016) features in NIDA’s Roundabout an interactive farce for the digital age this week.
6 characters. 3 bodies. 1 meddlesome audience. So many things could go wrong. Science fiction meets comedy as three young school leavers in an awkward love triangle meet on the video platform Twitch. In the chat channel are three skylarking digital humans who yearn to be made flesh for the first time in 13,000 years. With the help of the audience they possess the actors.
The characters play musical chairs, hopping from body to body while interacting with the audience in real time. Will the audience keep up with the speed of change? Will the actors be consumed by the personalities of the digital characters?
Roundabout is written and directed by Primetime Emmy Award-winning storyteller and science fiction writer Sean Stewart. Begin your journey into Roundabout on the show’s Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages.
8.00pm on 4, 5 and 8 August and 11.00am on 7, 8 and 9 August. Tickets from $0–$25. (Content warning – M15+ adult themes, flashing lights).
Mrs Joy Daley
Coordinator of Theatre and Drama
drama@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9860