Drama Presentation Class 7 – 8

Connection has been the focus in Drama this term: building physical connection though movement, social connection within the group, and emotional connection to text. We have worked across the year groups on a collection of scenes from predominantly Australian writers.

The scenes ranged from a contemporary new Australian play, The Block Universe, with a scene about the awkwardness of a missed joke set in a university library, to high fantasy in An Empress, a Faun and… Olive Loaf, looking at the catastrophic fallout of a big sister wishing her younger sister would just get out of her life and ending up trying to win her sister back in a parallel world ruled by a cruel Empress, a futuristic eco-drama Seeing the Elephant, set 80 years in the future in a highly altered version of our reality, and a contemporary translation of Antigone.

The students delivered a script-in-hand performance to years 5/6 and 9/10 last Friday afternoon and did a fantastic job, supporting each other with set changes, stepping in at the last minute for absent scene partners, and taking that huge leap and performing in front of their peers.