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 Drama |
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| We offer Drama as an extra subject from Grades 10 to 12. At Grade 8 and 9 level, Drama is offered as a component of Arts and Culture Group. Excursions to the theatre are arranged regularly. The School is regularly involved in major dramatic productions and musical presentations each year and inter-house competitions. Wide Eisteddfod participation, lunchtime concerts, music evenings and an annual Carol service are part of the schools calendar. Since 1968, Handel’s Messiah has been presented every five years by the High School, in conjunction with out sister school, Rustenburg Girls High School.
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What is Drama? |
| Drama is a social art form, which integrates visual, aural, physical, kinesthetic, and performance elements to communicate, explore, reflect on and enhance human experience. The subject Drama encompasses a range of performance modes across a variety of media and within a diversity of cultural and social contexts< |
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Purpose |
The subject Drama develops and promotes human creativity as a rich, diverse and productive resource through dramatic communication, interaction and representation. Learning in the Dramatic Arts involves using experience, reflection, and analysis and re-experience to gain skills, knowledge, values and insight. The approach is inclusive, ensuring that all learners, including those with special educational needs, will be actively and creatively engaged in the learning process.
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Scope |
The scope covered by the subject includes:
- Cultural practices and processes, including traditions, customs, festivals and rituals
- Oral studies and oracy including praise poetry, myths, poetry, legends, folk tales, folklore, laments, story
telling and public speaking
- Text (written, visual and oral) and context (identity, societies, cultures, ideologies, time and change)
- Performance styles, traditions and movements and contributions of indigenous and global theatre
practitioners
- Dramatic practices, processes and products including improvisation, role play, characterisation, acting,
directing, designing, stagecraft, arts administration and entertainment technology
- Drama media, as an aspect of mass media, including all means of telling stories by way of stage, video, film, television, radio and new media.
The Drama Production for 2012 is Lord of the Flies.
Congratulations to the following on being selected for the cast:
1. Ralph: Chad Drayton
2. Jack : Thomas Mountford
3. Piggy : Buntu Yabo
4. Roger : Kyle Niemand
5. Sam : David Brooke
6. Eric : Josh goldman
7. Simon : Jason Scheepers
8. Henry : Tfadzwanashe (Taffy) Mvundura
9. Maurice : Eddie Bester
10. Perceval : Aidan Wildschut
11. Naval Officer : Danie Krynauw
12. Naval Officer : Alessandro Napoli
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