Drama

Year 12 HSC Showcase Evening - Drama

Last Thursday evening the Year 12 Drama class of five students - Pepper Bowie-Ford, Makaylah Beatty, Alice Martin, Ruby Lawlor and Sharni Morris - took to the stage in front of friends and family to showcase their group performance and their individual performances that had been seen and assessed by HSC markers only two days before. Now that the practical exam component of this subject had been completed, the students were visibly relaxed and joyous in their performances, allowing themselves to finally enjoy the chemistry that comes from  performing in front of a live audience. To cheers and laughter from the audience, the students explored the unique challenges and pitfalls to growing up female and through different scenarios explored the ins and outs of how women may undermine or ultimately support each other. The title of the group devised piece -”Pecking Order”- saw the five students alternate between embodying birds and embodying women. There were some real insights on show that had the audience talking afterwards.The individual pieces saw many different topics under review-from what it means to belong as expressed by a First Nations woman in “Belonging” to the heartache and struggle of refugees from Vietnam in “Lift”, to the deranged reasons behind a murder in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Telltale Heart” to the deranged mutterings of a cockroach killer in “Living with the enemy”. All in all, it was a great night’s entertainment and a fitting way to send off these talented performers. Many thanks to the students who assisted on the night-Mel Page, Katelyn Davidson, Justin MacDonald, Logan Munro. Mrs Marshall and Miss Cotton.