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:
“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity to history, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, griefs, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations—all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“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)