On Thursday 16th September, our senior Drama students headed off to Deloraine to participate in the 66th Deloraine Youth Drama Festival. This was a new event for our Drama students and they were extremely excited to share their hard work with an outside audience and perform in a new space, at the Little Theatre in Deloraine. They presented two pieces, both written by playwright Don Zolidis.

Alice’s Adventures with Poorly Cooked Cafeteria Seafood: Between her genius little brother forcing her to play Dungeons and Dragons with his weird friend and scoring detention with the meanest teacher in the school, Alice is having the worst day imaginable. Hoping to get herself sent to the hospital, she eats as much mystery fish as possible from the cafeteria. What follows is a bizarre series of hallucinations that have a suspicious resemblance to another famous Alice story...

Dystopia, the Hungry Maze Game of Divergent Death: Trapped against their will in a dystopian future, a group of teens must battle against emotionally sensitive guards, limited budgets and the trigger-happy Gamemaster to be proclaimed the winner.

Their performances ran smoothly and the adjudicator highlighted their excellent physicalisation, clear vocalisation and clever use of stage. There was a strong sense of ensemble, with all students supporting one another and working seamlessly together as a group. Congratulations to all participants for their commitment to learning, pushing themselves outside their comfort zones, working as a team and setting and achieving performance goals. Campbell Stebbings and Jasmine Jones won Runner Up Best Actor and Actress awards and Lily Dobson won an award called 'No Such Thing As A Small Role' for her performance. Well done!

These pieces will be showcased at our annual Arts Night in November, so come along and see the great work produced by Drama, Dance, Music and Visual Arts students across the school.