Showcase: Art • Dance • Drama • Music
Drama “Drama is not about playing games and doing everything with your friends. It’s about finding new friends and learning to play with them.” Manav Virmoni and Max Grobman, Year 4.2
The development and understanding of ensemble skills is at the core of everything we do in Junior and Senior drama. These ensemble skills include: commitment; communication; concentration; co-operation; integration; listening; organisation; planning; taking risks; and trusting others. These skills are the basis of every drama lesson - the tools of the trade – where all students work and create with others. In drama, working in an ensemble allows students to grow and be nurtured in a supportive environment. Drama is not only about polished performance skills but about the creative process of working with others and the ability to work through consensus and differences or obstacles to achieve a goal.
“Drama really makes our class work as one. Drama is the only subject where I don’t worry what others think of me, I can be myself, because I trust others.” Grace Conlan, Year 7.1
“Working on concentration skills through drama has helped me improve my focus in other lessons.” Isabella Li, Year 9.2
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Ensemble Skills in Drama by Ian Peirson, Head of Senior Drama and Theresa Chapman, Head of Junior Drama