Drama

Whether it’s touring an original piece of theatre to local primary schools, staging a West End musical with the boys from Hampton School, or running a show backstage with our technical team, we encourage all our pupils to take part, test themselves, and enjoy everything the department has to offer!

In recent years we have staged musicals including Legally Blonde and Mary Poppins; we’ve continued to commission professional playwrights to write new plays for large female casts as part of our Write the Girl initiative. These full-scale productions allow all students to work alongside our partner schools and gain professional training from these writers.

Students can further their training as part of our Speech and Drama program that offers students 1:1 tuition through Acting, Prose and Public Speaking. Specialist teaching staff guide our students through examinations gaining fantastic results and UCAS points as they enter upper school.

We regularly host workshops and training from industry leading practitioners such as Splendid & Paper Birds, and in the past have taken 80 students to New York City as part of the Performing Arts tour.

All of this work takes place in and around our stunning 240 seat theatre: it is a flexible space at the heart of the Arts Centre, which includes a rehearsal suite, studio theatre, green room and seminar room, as well as the Music and Art Departments.

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Trinity Champion Centre

LEH Drama department has been awarded Trinity Champion Centre 2024/25 status, in recognition of our outstanding exam results, innovations in teaching and our excellent programme of performance events.

As part of our successful delivery of Trinity Speech and Drama qualifications, the LEH Drama Department is now considered an exemplar, and will share its ideas and best practice to inspire other organisations and schools. Trinity College London is a leading international exam board and independent education charity that specialises in the assessment of communicative and performance skills covering music, drama, combined arts and English language .

Extra-curricular Drama
Speech and Drama lessons

Extra-curricular Drama

The extra-curricular programme is designed to combine open access to all activities with the pursuit of excellence, however that may be defined for the age-group and students involved. Regular clubs include:

Tech Club: two afternoons per week, students are trained to crew the full range of Performing Arts events, from Front of House through to wardrobe, lighting, sound and stage management.
Fun drama clubs for Years, 7, 8 and 9.
A Year 10 project exploring a diverse range of age-appropriate genres.
Musical Theatre Dance Club, which also includes boys from Hampton School, our neighbouring school.

Although many other events can be scheduled, the core production programme consists of:

An annual musical production performed with Hampton School, which the schools produce and host on alternate years;
A main school production;
A Year 10 production, which in the recent past has been an especially commissioned work from an emerging performance poet. Sometimes, but not always, with Hampton School.
A Sixth Form production (produced and directed by students, and open to the boys at Hampton School).
A Year 9 “Theatre in Education” tour to local Primary Schools.
A Lower School Musical (Years 7 & 8): a large scale production with 50-70 students in the cast.

Speech and Drama lessons

Approximately 160 students follow the Trinity Guildhall specification, drawing on the full range of options available as individuals, in pairs or in small groups. These sessions are hugely popular, with many students opting to follow the Communication Skills syllabi to develop essential life-skills for the world of work, and beyond. Over the course of the last year over 80% of all results have been a Distinction, and an increasing number of students are taking the professional Diploma examinations: we routinely place students into world-class conservatoires to continue their training.

Write the Girl

Write the Girl is an LEH initiative between schools and theatre professionals to support playwrights in developing the meaningful stories our young women deserve. A school can select a play proposal from our Write the Girl playback, commission the playwright to write that play for their particular students and embark on the most enriching, creative and collaborative journey from pen to stage. Thus those meaningful stories, suitable for large casts, that stretch, challenge and engage a generation of young women often marginalised by a male-dominated canon, can take their place on the main stage.

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