VIM Issue 1 2011 low resolution - All Saints College

Principal’s update
SENIOR SCHOOL
14 | ALL SAINTS’ COLLEGE VIM Issue 1 2011
Senior Drama Night
On Thursday evening, March 24th,
the All Saints’ College Drama Room was
filled with an audience eager to see the
2011 Senior Drama Night. This marked
Mrs Zoe McGirr’s first foray into
performance at the College.
The Senior Drama Night included
two shows:
YEAR 11 PERFORMANCE:
‘DÉJÀ VU’
In this unit, students have been
learning the performance style of
‘Naturalism’, or ‘Method Acting’ as it
is more commonly known, as invented
by Stanislavski. In the performance,
students worked in pairs. They both
chose the same script, but worked
separately to develop the ‘given
circumstances’ and characters, so that the
audience might see the same dialogue
interpreted differently. It was fun for the
Sydney
Theatre
Company
Excursion
On Wednesday, 2nd
March, the Year 12 Drama
students took an excursion
to the Sydney Theatre
Company to be part of the
annual Brecht workshop.
The workshop, held
in Wharf Theatre 2, was
directed by Shannon
Murphy and starred a
selection of professional
Sydney actors, who
together took us through
a workshop of Brecht’s
plays, theories and his life.
Mrs Zoë McGirr
audience to try to see if they could
work out what was really going on
for each of these characters.
YEAR 12 PERFORMANCE:
THE EPIC REMOVAL
“The Removalists” by David
Williamson is one of the HSC
Australian Drama texts for 2011. It
is a black comedy set in the 1970s,
which reflects on the underlying
corruption in the police force and
violence in Australian culture.
The students cut the play up and
added Brechtian staging devices
such as screens, dance, music,
overheard monologue and the
use of direct address (where the
characters break through the ‘fourth
wall’ and talk to the audience). The
play starred Chantal Hodson, Clare
Watt, Melinda Nancarrow, Melissa
Paul, Lachlan McDevitt and Zoë
McGirr.
Mrs Zoë McGirr would
especially like to thank Garry
Anderson and Max Eggleton for
their help with the lights, Jenny
Lavoipierre for prompt, Bob Poole
for photography, Carnaby Gilany
for videography, Frances McLeod
and Tessa Jones for marking and
feedback.
Special thanks also to all those
who came along to help support
this growing Drama Department at
All Saints’ College.