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.
Find out more about the School Play Experience at LEH
Matilda Junior
Crazy for You
Return to the Forbidden Planet
Of Silent Words
Betsey
Boudica
The Penelopiad
Posh
Of Silent Words
Electra
LEH Drama Department presents the first production from the 'Write the Girl' Initiative 'Wellington 24'
Matilda Junior
Of Silent Words
The Penelopiad
Wellington 24
Posh
The Crucible
Of Silent Words
Boudica
Beauty and the Beast
Drama here is ouststanding.
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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 .
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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