Clifton College - Upper - Drama and Dance

Drama and Dance

Director of Drama
Mrs Karen Pickles BA (Hons), BEd (Hons), NPQH
Teachers
Mrs Jody Lewarne BA (Hons), LRAD, PGCE:DT, QTS Mr William Corrie BA (Hons)

Drama and Dance at Clifton will be facing one of its most challenging and exciting phases as the department takes on two major productions and Dance becomes a major player in the co-curricular field. This will enable further exciting adventures into performance work and also skills-based training for boys and girls – as the idea of working on stage appeals more and more to young people.

Dance GCSE and A Level is now an option in our E Sector choices and these new options join the PCert LAM (teaching certificate) for LAMDA which has proved so popular over the last two years. Theatre Studies at A Level (and Drama at GCSE) have been mainstream options for some years, of course, but now there are exciting developments in the opportunities of experience, workshops and learning that we hope will inspire our pupils.

The production of Evita was completed on Saturday, 12th November and the curtain came down to a standing ovation from the 300-strong audience. During the 6 performances over 1,800 people witnessed the cast and crew working on a production which really challenged them, but which they performed with professionalism and unbelievable talent.

Evita is virtually an opera and the strength of our musical and acting talent across the 13–18 year range within the cast was outstanding. See the programme/E-Reader version (requires Flash), photo gallery and reviews. Film clips of the Wednesday evening performance will be available here soon.

Our next production is to be Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, for showing in July 2012, and will be our first open air production for many years.

JUST ANNOUNCED! Phantom of the Opera has been announced as the next School Production in November 2012. We are all very excited to have the privilege and challenge to put this famous production on the Redgrave stage, and workshops will start in the summer term.

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