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.

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.