Drama
In 2007, an ensemble of students performed a 30 minute adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello as part of the annual Shakespeare Schools Festival in February of that year. Their performance was widely acclaimed by the local organisers for both the quality of the acting, and the adaptation techniques of resetting the play during a modern gangland situation.
Students from Years 8-10 participated in Darke Visions, a tribute to local playwright Nick Darke in January 2010, performing an improvised piece written by a Sixth Form student, at the Hall for Cornwall alongside contributions from other secondary schools from across the county.
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Famous quotes containing the word drama:
“The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)
“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)