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Senior Drama Festival at The Regent's International School, Bangkok
On the 26th February, through adversity and numerous disruptions, schools started arriving for the 2020 Senior FOBISIA Drama Festival "All the World’s a Stage", at Regent’s International School Bangkok.
Over the ensuing three days students worked in companies to explore four different styles of world theatre – Ancient Greek, Commedia dell’Arte, Renaissance morality performance and Pantomime. They witnessed a Thai Khon performance on a grand scale at Siam Niramit and traditional Thai puppetry within the school, with the opportunity to also learn how to operate them under the guidance of the professional performers. food and throughout the Festival participants never went hungry with a range of Thai and western street food being freshly prepared.
“The students worked amazingly in their companies to produce really diverse and interesting takes, delivering high quality performances full of creativity ”
Our final night was a massive highlight as the students and staff 'got their party' on as we decorated one another with UV paint and glow-in-the-dark accessories, and partied away at our Koh Sametstyle UV disco. The whole event was great fun and culminated in students retelling Shakespeare’s "As You Like it", the play from which the speech "All the World’s a Stage" comes from, in one or more styles of world theatre, to bring a fresh new, modern and relatable perspective to this 400-year-old play. The students worked amazingly in their companies to produce really diverse and interesting takes, delivering high quality performances full of creativity.
Everyone left with big smiles, new friends and new knowledge in world theatre and the skills to apply it in performance.
Article by: Matthew Trearty, Head of Drama The Regent's International School Bangkok
