Cranford Review 2014

The
Drama
Department...
2013-2014
has been an exciting
year for Cranford’s
budding young actors and for the Drama Department as
a whole with lots of new ventures and opportunities being
offered to students across the three key stages. This year
we have been focussing upon performance opportunities
which has provided us with some amazing finished pieces
Getting
the Show
on the Road !
Year 13 students completed
their final practical projects
and devised some thought-provoking and hard hitting performances around the
themes of reality, breaking down the barriers between actor and audience and blurring
the boundaries. “The Glam Magazine” looked at the idea of how what we see in the
media is not reality but how we are always striving for perfection. “Sophie” dealt
with the effect of death on a family and obsession and the third project, “Juggles Do
The Troubles”, pursued the idea that ‘reality
TV’ portrays an image of reality which is not
realistic at all. All three projects captured
the audience imagination and provoked
considerable debate afterwards. A very talented
year group and some stunning work.
Seema Sethi (Head of Drama)
In February 2014 the Drama Department delivered a
cross arts project on the TI day with year 7 and 8. The
students devised a piece of music and drama around the
children’s story “Not Now Bernard” which tells the story
of Bernard whose parents are so busy doing their own
thing, that the monster can eat Bernard’s dinner, break
his toys, and even eat Bernard, without being noticed.
Students spent the day working in small groups and then
came together for the performances.
Our year 12 AS students have had a busy year with the
performances of “Metamorphosis” and “East is East” by
exploring texts in more depth. We then concluded the AS
level with an evening of Ibsen’s plays ‘A Doll’s House’,
set on a council estate and a more traditional adaptation
of ‘Ghosts’. Both productions were well received by the
audience and the examiner.
“I really enjoyed this experience of
creating and using my imagination.
I particularly liked the last part when the
music was added to our drama, because it
felt like a ‘real’ performance”.
Armela Dukarj (year 8)
bounce
THEATRE
The
year 9 and 10 GCSE Drama students worked with
professional actors from the Bounce Theatre Company
to devise their own interactive theatre performance of Pandora’s Box.
pandora’s box
Devised by Bounce Theatre with young people from Hounslow
9th & 10th July 2014 Paul Robeson Theatre
The storyline evolved during weeks of rehearsal in WFactor. Pandora
wins an iPad and as all the apps are left open by Zeus, the Greek
pandora’s
God, Pandora experiences all evils of the world. Our students devised
b
scenes around the themes society’s obsession to have the perfect body
how social media can influence us both negatively positively.
The students performed at the Paul Robeson theatre on two nights.
Some real talent was exhibited on the night and Cranford students
were equally as impressive as the professional actors.
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