Drama

This week the Year 13 Drama and Theatre Studies students took their A2 practical exam. They had to devise their own piece of theatre, they chose to adapt Grimm’s tale of Little Red Cap in the style of physical theatre. They had been i...

Last week the Year 11 Performing Arts students took their practical exam. They had to create a piece of Drama based on the title of ‘Is There Anybody Out There’. All the groups worked in groups to produce a piece of theatre whic...

Saturday saw our GCSE Performing Arts students and A Level Drama and Theatre Studies students setting off for a day of Theatrical wonderment in London! We started our day in The Big Smoke, with a tour of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, w...

In just ten days during the First World War, the Lancashire town of Accrington sent a thousand of its men and boys to serve King and Country; in just ten minutes in July 1916, most of them were slaughtered on the Somme. The Accrington Pals tel...

On Tuesday, Year 10 & 11 GCSE Performing Arts students took part in an amazing lighting workshop, with professional lighting designer John Watson. They all helped to build a scaled down working theatre, including lights, backdrops and smoke ma...