DRAMA

"All the world's a stage…"

Drama at Calrossy is about instilling the desire to communicate through enactment. In fact it is much more than what is on the stage! It includes what occurs behind the stage, behind the mask and behind the actor's dialogue.

Through the study of drama Calrossy students acquire social and life skills that will benefit them long after they have left school and entered the adult world. Drama encourages self-confidence, teaches students the abilty to listen more actively and develops skills that enable students to relate more readily to others.

While students must learn to understand thoroughly the theoretical aspects of this subject much classtime is devoted to workshops that develop practical skills such as voice, movement and speech. Playbuilding and improvisation are also important parts of the junior and senior courses.

In order to develop critiquing skills students are given the opportunity to attend both amateur and professional performances locally and in the metropolitan area.

Drama is regularly taken out of the classroom context with students presenting performances at the Tamworth Eisteddfod, school assemblies, soirees, local theatresports tournaments and at a number of community events. Calrossy mounts a major production each year.

Drama is available as an elective course of either 100 or 200 hours in Years 9 and 10 or as a 2 unit HSC subject in Years 11 and 12.