Drama

This week the Year 10 GCSE Performing Arts groups have completed their first big, group assessment piece for their coursework. The students were put into groups of four and asked to perform extracts of John Godber’s modern classics &l...

I would like to say a huge well done to everyone involved in Abbotsholme’s first lower school production. On Friday 16 March students from Years 7, 8 and 9 performed a play based on Rudyard Kipling’s 'Just So' Stories. The students w...

Year 8 have been working on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Drama as part of their enrichment programme. Today we worked on the fairies’ lullaby that is used to sing Queen Titania to sleep. The students worked in group...

A group of enthusiastic and creative Year 7-9 pupils have been working on Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just So’ stories, as part of the Expectations programme on a Friday afternoon. Each group was given its own short story and has worked o...

On Monday 27 February I took the GCSE Performing Arts and ALevel Drama and Theatre Studies groups to Buxton Opera House to see Steven Berkoff's surrealist play, The Trial. The play was stylised and physical, and although not to everyone's taste, a...