Tomorrow my Drama Club students are participating in the Singapore Youth Festival's English Drama competition. Since I arrived at the school I have been attending their rehearsals and watching the progress as they come into the home stretch of their performance preparation.
St. Hilda's hasn't had a Drama Club for very long, from what I understand they have been working together for two or three years. SYF is on alternating years so the years that they don't prepare for the festival they put up a play, last year they did Lord of the Flies. This year is an SYF year so they have been working on a short play that is an adaptation of a book called "Raider's Run" which is about gangs.
It's always a bit hard to figure out where you fit in the group when you arrive and there are two teachers already working with the drama club and a trainer who comes from an outside drama group that prepared the kids for this performance. My role has mostly been giving feedback after performances and helping to supervise rehearsals and give suggestions on things such as enunciation and diction which are the biggest challenges and focuses here in Singapore where kids speak Singlish.
Our competition is tomorrow morning so it will be the evening back in Canada, the results go up on this page.
They should be up by the following day which will be Thursday for us, Wednesday back in the tundra. The kids are hoping to at least get a silver medal, last time around they got a bronze and if we get a silver we will get more funding from the school I think for the production next year which we are thinking might be a modern interpretation of Shakespeare, possibly the Scottish Play if the school will allow us to practice some witchcraft in an Anglican school. ;)
No comments:
Post a Comment