Creative & Cultural
Drama This year has been full of activity and fourteen different plays in the Drama department. We have transported the audience to Wonderland in the Memorial Hall and a tube station in London Below in the Drama Studio. Pupils have performed in two professional theatres: the Carriageworks in Leeds and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. Pupils responded to the national ‘pop-up’ theatre movement of immersive and sitespecific performances with the A-level production Dust Off The Archives taking the audience around the school and A Doll’s House reimagined in the Recital Room (converted for the evening into the flat of Nora and Torvald). The world of the play is extremely important and having Sara Burns as our lighting and set designer has been an incredible opportunity, it has also meant that pupils in production teams have thrived – particularly George Snell, Lizzy Whiter and Jodi Smith. Aiming to ensure that we define ourselves as a generation of ‘theatre-makers’ as well as being able to love and understand the classics is very important. St Peter’s took part in the National Connections Festival performing the premiere of Sam Holcroft’s The Wardrobe and we saw Ben Turvill’s challenging debut play Woolwich 2013 as part of his Trinity College Gold Arts Award. I have no doubt that he will be part of the generation of theatremakers that I talk of. We have loved live music on stage: the Wonderband in Alice, Max and James as the foresters with their ukuleles in As You Like It, Emily McDonald as a busker in London Below, and a range of cast members demonstrating their musical talent in The Wardrobe.
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The Peterite 2013-2014
