PGS Drama Programme, 2023-24
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PGS DRAMA
2023-24 Programme
Welcome to PGS Drama’s productions for 2023-24!
As ever, we ’ ve put together a varied and exciting programme with both audiences and pupils in mind. Taken together, the following shows offer a great range of opportunities for pupils in all year groups to get involved, and will allow our many talented performers and technicians to shine.
Apart from the Sixth Form production, you’ll see firm performance dates and venue, with any finalised audition dates. Auditions take place in the Gatehouse, and further details will be communicated via tutors nearer the time.
Obviously we ’ re done not with 2022-23 yet (we can’t wait for Chicago, Emil and The Detectives and DNA), but in the meantime, as you will hopefully agree, there’s plenty to look forward to.
James Robinson Director of Drama The Portsmouth Grammar School By Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Autumn
Senior School Musical
Years 8 - 13
New Theatre Royal
23rd - 25th November 2023
Auditions - open to current Year 7 upwards
Wednesday 3rd & Thursday 4th May 2023
Recalls, Friday 5th May 2023
Universally recognised as the perfect musical comedy, this awardwinning classic gambles with luck and love under the bright lights of Broadway, using the wise guys and dolls of NYC as its cast.
Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.
A MONSTER CALLS
Based on the novel by Patrick Ness. adapted by Sally Cookson and Adam Peck
Spring
Senior School Play
Years 9 - 13
David Russell Theatre
20th - 22nd March 2024
Auditions - open to current Year 8 upwards
Tuesday 9th & Wednesday 10th May 2023
Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill. But tonight is different, and the next night too. The Monster calls, always at 12.07am. It tells Conor stories that seem to touch his life. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all. The truth.
By Julian FellowesMusic by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater
Middle School Musical
Years 7 & 8
David Russell Theatre
22nd - 24th May 2024
Auditions - open to Year 7 & 8 pupils from September 2023 Dates to be confirmed
Dewey Finn is a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn a few extra bucks by posing as a cover teacher at a prestigious prep school. Once there, he turns a class of straight-A students into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band….but will they all find redemption at the battle of the bands?
Summer
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Summer
Sixth Form Play
Years 12 & 13
Dates and location to be confirmed
Auditions - open to Year 12 & 13 pupils from September 2023 December 2023, dates to be confirmed
Caesar returns from his latest war triumphant - but is it right for one man to possess so much power? Cassius and Brutus plan the unthinkable - the murder of an Emperor for the good of the republic.
In a modern world preoccupied with tyrants and conspiracies, was Shakespeare’s political thriller ever more relevant?
PGS Drama Programme, 2023-24
