TRINITONIAN 14 July 2019

SCHOOL PAGES
TRINITYHOUSE
PREPARATORY
LITTLE FALLS
TRACKING PROGRESS ON
STAGE
Pulling off a prep school production is simply not for
the faint-hearted and weak-minded. Trinityhouse
Preparatory Little Falls is working on their Senior
Phase Production: ‘The Theatre on the Hill’.
What should be a carefully planned railway track through
carefully graded inclines and slopes feels more like a
death-defying rollercoaster!
Our cast of over 100 pupils has to find their way to various
practices scattered between sports and academic events,
public holidays and school camps. Some of them are
exercising massive versatility between acting, singing,
dancing and playing their musical instruments.
Supporting them are our ever-supportive parents, who
run their own Marathon of Endurance Parenting – staying
ahead of multiple schedules and events!
In the centre of it all stands a small group of teachers – with
their eyes on the horizon, and their hands on the throttle…
and brakes. We need to watch ahead for the signals and
lights – and ensure that the ride is worth every challenge
we meet.
Practice is one thing, budgeting is another. As is stage
planning, sound and lights management, costume design,
advertising and publishing. At the end of the “day” – or
perhaps better said – at the end of the “show”, any school
pulling off a production has engaged in a massive group
collaborative enterprise.
And what for? Why all the expense? Why all of the effort?
Much the same as why anyone is crazy enough to strap
themselves into the Anaconda at Gold Reef City…
It is a thrill! The exhilaration of doing something that makes
no logical sense, but ignites the soul with imagination,
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