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Drama
The department stages at least eight productions during the course of each academic year and looks to offer opportunities to pupils of all ages. Year group and section plays (Lower School Play, Years 9 and 10 Play, Year 11 Play, Lower Sixth Play and the Upper Sixth Play) are aimed at providing both performance roles and technical responsibilities to pupils who wish to get involved in drama outside of the classroom.
The school offers a range of performance and rehearsal spaces from a fully-equipped theatre to a brand new studio-classroom, the main hall for theatre in the round and outside spaces for open air or promenade productions. In recent years, productions have been staged at external venues in Cambridge including Cambridge Arts Theatre, The Junction, Corpus Christi Playroom and the Mumford Theatre.
In the Sixth Form, students are encouraged to write, produce and direct their own productions in addition to those staged by the department.
Recent productions have included:
- The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, The Burial at Thebes (world amateur premiere of Seamus Heaney’s translation of Antigone), As You Like It, Henry IV, Under Milk Wood, Wotcha Will! and Pygmalion (Perse Players productions)
- What the Butler Saw, Man of the Moment, Arcadia, Black Comedy, Woyzeck, The Merchant of Venice, The Ash Girl and The Fall of the House of Usher (Upper Sixth Plays)
- The Servant to Two Masters, The Country Wife, Forty Years On, The Crucible, Hay Fever, Dangerous Liaisons, Noises Off and Arabian Nights (Lower Sixth Plays)
- Boleyn and Jack the Ripper (Lower Sixth productions written and produced by members of the year group)
- Unman, Wittering and Zigo, Journey’s End, Three Parables, An Evening of Short Plays and Sketches by Beckett and Pinter, Confusions and The First Sign of Madness (Year 11 Plays)
- Eastward Ho!,The Real Inspector Hound, Twelve Angry Men, The Iceman Cometh, Spoils of War, Macbeth, Duck Variations, Of Mice and Men and The Crucible (Years 9 and 10 Plays)
- The Canterbury Tales, Frankenstein, Beowulf, Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror, Lord of the Flies, The Wind in the Willows and The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (Lower School productions)
- The Lower School Music and Drama Festival
- Boat Memory (world premiere in association with the Royal National Theatre – later transferred to Cambridge Arts Theatre as part of the ‘Connections’ festival)
- The Burial at Thebes, Black Comedy, Henry IV and The Fall of the House of Usher (performances by the Upper Sixth at Venue 45 as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
