
The play’s the thing
My first full day at work: in the classroom, shadowing Viloshni Naidoo, the Head of Performing Arts at Dominican, followed by the introductory meeting to “Production”, which is the name

My first full day at work: in the classroom, shadowing Viloshni Naidoo, the Head of Performing Arts at Dominican, followed by the introductory meeting to “Production”, which is the name

They say that great drama springs from constraints; so we are clearly destined for quite a show, as the constraints on this first audition were considerable. On the plus side, it

First rehearsal proper today, called for just the main speaking roles in the first two plays. They were late arriving – as noted before, some things are the same the

First rehearsal proper today, called for just the main speaking roles in the first two plays. They were late arriving – as noted before, some things are the same the

First full rehearsal, and it was slow going. I’d hoped to 1. read through the Three Sisters play, 2. try out some cast created sound effects, and 3. maybe divide

The advantage of having six different plays with largely separate casts is that they can be rehearsed simultaneously; the disadvantage, even with just two plays, as was the case this afternoon,

After last week, Chris was determined that in today’s rehearsal everybody would be kept busy. But his careful plans were thrown asunder when, amongst other things, netball trials and football training meant that at

Rehearsal and the usual anxiety – who would turn up? But for the first time, all the people I’d asked to come did come. (Eventually, it’s true, but hey… We

The old chapel, dating from the time when the school was also a working convent, is apparently due for refurbishment (it would also make a wonderful drama studio, but never

Yet another crazy, chaotic rehearsal – story of my life really – but we did manage to struggle from one end of Three Sisters to the other, and as it’s the

So here’s the poster for the show, designed by Simbarashe Mabaire, a Grade 10 learner here (i.e. about sixteen.) “Kwasuka Sukela” means Once upon a time in Zulu, referring to

The play “Soup” was the major focus of this afternoon’s rehearsal, a slightly bizarre tale with the message that, just like the ingredients of soup, we are better together. Plotwise,