Our students win hearts with their stellar performances!
At the Inter-house Dramatics Competition held this year, our students mesmerized the audience with their incredible talent, vision, creativity and imagination. Needless to say, it was a wonderful theatrical experience for our audience. This year, our young artists came up with unique and varied themes that focused on some of the most pressing issues of our time such as inequality and racism, the struggles of transgenders and gender-diverse people, and growing violence and aggressiveness among the youth.
We are so glad that we have some of the best budding actors, writers, and directors among us! Each of the four plays — Turf-War – An adaptation of “The American Crisis” (Autumn House), The Unnamed Love Suicide (Winter House), A Thousand Splendid Invisibles (Summer House), and And Then There Were None (Spring House) outshone the other in terms of originality, script, characterization, acting, and overall effect.
Turf War, performed by Autumn House, secured first place in the competition. Turf War is a thinly veiled social and political satire based on Ned Lauver’s The American Crisis. An American and Russian family, who are neighbours across the street, claim bitter hatred for one another, yet are eerily similar in behaviour. Their greatest crisis unfolds when their duelling offspring find true love and threaten to create an amalgam in both households.
Yet another play that captivated the attention of the audience was ‘A Thousand Splendid Invisibles’ performed by Summer House. The play, originally scripted by our students, dealt with the constant discrimination and violence faced by people with myriad gender identities and sexual orientations in our society.
The Unnamed Love Suicide, performed by Winter House, portrayed the growing incidence of bullying and violent behaviour in schools and its impact on the mental and emotional health of the victims. The play revolves around a group of 4th graders who are presenting a play written by their deceased classmate, Johnny, who has committed suicide. It is a hard look at the cycle of bullying and the cruelty of children when left to their own devices.
And Then There Were None, a play full of mystery and suspense, performed by Spring House, was yet another showstopper. In this play, based on Agatha Christie’s novel, ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, a remote island near the Devon Coast. Each of them is accused of a terrible crime. Very soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.
The judges were quite impressed with the excellent acting and directorial skills of our students and gave them recommendations on how to hone their craft.
