Selwyn Times: March 14, 2017

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Double drama for Lincoln
High School productions
• By Tom Doudney
LIFE IN Nazi Germany and
child poverty in late 19th
century Dunedin are the subjects
of Lincoln High School’s two
major senior drama productions
this year.
Year 12 and 13 drama students
are busy rehearsing for the plays,
which will be staged in the
school hall next month.
The year 12 students will be
performing Fear and Misery
of the Third Reich by Bertold
Brecht.
Brecht’s series of interconnected
playlets describe events
which took place in German
households in the 1930s. They
dramatise the suspicion and
anxiety experienced by ordinary
people, particularly Jewish citizens,
as the power of Hitler grew.
Two performances with different
casts will take place on April
6, at 6pm and 8pm.
The year 13 students will be
performing Children of the Poor
by Mervyn Thompson.
Thompson’s adaptation of
John A Lee’s 1934 novel follows
the formative years of the autobiographical
Albany Porcello,
a disillusioned adolescent who
comes face-to-face with desperate
poverty, misery, crime and
the contempt of Presbyterian
THEATRE: Year 12 students Alexis Grosvenor (above left),
Claire Broughton, Libby Duncan, Fleur Neill and Kyle Cossey
rehearse a scene from Fear and Misery of the Third Reich. Year
13 student Callum Lyall (below) plays a chaplain.
Dunedin.
Children of the Poor is an
ensemble play with musical elements.
The script uses theatrical
devices, including direct narration,
chorus and physical theatre,
to confront the audience with
Porcello’s tale of poverty and
hardship.
Again, there will be two performances
with different casts.
These will be on April 11, at 6pm
and 8pm.
Tickets to any of these performances
are $5 and can be
purchased from the school office.
Door sales will also be available.
SCHOOLS
LINKED UP: Some genuine police handcuffs made playing
cops and robbers more realistic on Thursday for West
Rolleston Primary School pupils, Jasmine (above left), India,
Israel, Quinn, Xavier and Athena. The new entrant pupils
recently had a visit from Constable Blair Croucher. They learnt
about how police officers help people and the importance of
being safe in the car and walking to school. As well as trying
out the handcuffs, they also got to sit in the police car and hear
the sirens, and Constable Croucher recorded how fast the
children could run using his laser.
DRESS UP: Xavier and India got to try on some of Constable
Croucher’s uniform. Meanwhile, Maddison and Sophia found
out what it’s like to sit in a police car.
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