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‘Ovr By 2 Christmas’ Introducing 2 the Drama Staff New Director’s Season
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Drama 3 Clubs and Opportunities
Stage Crew 6
Photo Gallery
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Shakespeare Schools Festival
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival Success This year LES Drama took 11 Year 12-13 students to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as Fusion Theatre to perform a new piece called Passing Sentence. The show centred around a car crash using a physical style and asked the audience to pass sentence and ultimately deciding each evening on the ending. Below, Lucy Thompson, an LHS Year 13 students shares her experience of the Fringe. The Edinburgh Experience From a performer’s perspective, the Fringe was fantastic. Without a doubt it was hard work the rehearsals, in which
we created our piece from scratch, but it was incredibly rewarding. For a week, we spent the
Rehearsals for Passing Sentence
morning distributing flyers on the Royal Mile before performing at lunchtime. The Royal Mile’s atmosphere was one of the most memorable parts , we advertised our show to the public and traded flyers with other
performers. Our venue was Greenside. We were lucky to have a great theatre and high audience numbers (even if a lot were family members!). The afternoons and evenings were our own, aside from the occasional midnight rehearsal. So many shows! At the Fringe you’re spoilt for choice, the variety was incredible. You wouldn’t be able to see an improvised musical, a puppet show about bears in space, and a production so gory we were given raincoats as protection from the squirted blood, anywhere else. We spent our last evening together as a cast celebrating the week . “One of the best experiences of my life” doesn’t begin to cover it.
Blood Brothers Production Blood Brothers is the main school production of 201415 and will take place at LGS Drama Studio directed by Mrs. BrutonLang. The play tells the show of the ill fated Johnston twins, “as alike each other as two new pins”. Their birth, their lives and loves, ending with inevitable tragedy.
Auditions took place on Thursday 18th September. We now have a bright, energetic cast of in Years 9—13 who will undoubtedly create a very special performance. With drama prefect Nat Higton as stage/production manager, we are in a safe pair of hands! Ticket details to follow!