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Friday 20th October
Drama

House Drama Competition PHC am

Adjudicators: Mrs A R Price and Mrs A Gonzalez

Results:

1st - Spooner

2nd - Burnaby

3rd - Oswald

4th - Donne

See the House Competition table for the latest standings.

 

Review: by Mrs Arabella Gonzalez:

 

All the plays in the house drama festival were good. A packed hall was spellbound during all four plays and the volume of laughter must have made all the school's neighbours wish they had been invited to come along. It was very hard to choose a winner and even harder to rank the other three plays.
 
Some of the high points of Spooner's play were Tanny Gliksman's Inspector Clouseau type interpretation of his role and Chelsea Bentley's impassive face as the rest of the cast tried deperately to get her attention. The play was well chosen and rehearsed.
 
Burnaby's play was also very funny with particularly convincing performances from Alun Morris as the Fawlty Towersesque waiter showing excellent comedy timing and Charles Manford as the blustering businessman impressing us all with his abilty to lie convincingly under pressure.
 
Oswald set the stage perfectly for their funeral parlour comedy with the grim reaper and sombre organ music. The undertaker (Tristan Hartey) remained suitably dead pan throughout, Kristina Kingolts was the perfect cynical corporate wife and Victoria Martoccia and Katy Yates appropriately (and convincingly ) hysterical.
 
Donne set themself a huge task with a play that was twice as long as the others with many scene changes and costume issues. We all enjoyed the detectives lurking behind a hedge to surprise the culprit and there were some great farcical moments. Lara White was a very serious police inspector (possible career choice?) and Tom Gonzalez as the superintendent never let us forget that he was in charge. It was a cosmopolitan police force that included Jeff and Eric, two of our South African exchange students!
 
All of the plays were impeccably supported by backstage workers and lighting and sound were used very effectively. Well done to all involved!

 

Programme:

Spooner: “Streuth!” by Michael Green

 

After months of dedicated rehearsal, the actors are looking forward to presenting this murder mystery play.  Unfortunately, when the big day arrives, nerves get the better of the cast and everything starts to go horribly wrong . . . .

 

 

Cast

 

The Inspector

Tanny Gliksman

Mr Oliver D'Arcy

Oliver Dowen

Hubert D’Arcy

Edward Wadon

The Major

Lauren Lloyd-Jones

The Vicar

Brook Simons-Akwah

James

Charles Pierce

Cook

Chelsea Bentley

Prompt

David Elwyn-Griffiths

 

 

Production

 

Directors

Helen Limbrey and Lauren Lloyd-Jones

Lighting

Alex Morgan and Andrew Edwards

Sound and Prompt

Sophie Adams

Burnaby: “Between Mouthfuls” by Alan Ayckbourn

 

Two couples enter a hotel restaurant and are about to enjoy a meal, when their secrets start to be revealed.

 

 

Cast

 

Waiter

Alun Morris

Pearce

Charles Manford

Mrs Pearce

Emily Middleton

Martin

Archie Hicklin

Polly

Laura Bell Williams

 

 

Production

 

Directors

Victoria Booth and Alun Morris

Lighting

Dani Jones and Anna James

Backstage

Freddi Aust, Charlotte Stonehill, Katherine Leung, JJ Crawford, Charlotte Dingwall-Fordyce and Alice Parker

Oswald: “Last Respects” by Colin Calvert

 

The action takes place in a funeral parlour where the deceased, Mr Throgmorton, is mourned by his wife, PA and secretary.  Confusion ensues as they slowly realise that they have all had ‘intimate relationships’ with him.

 

 

Cast

 

Mr Reginald Deadlock (Undertaker)

Tristan Hartey

Valerie Pym (PA)

Victoria Martoccia

Brenda Thomson (Secretary)

Katy Yates

Mrs Ethel Throgmorton (Wife)

Kristina Kingolts

 

 

Production

 

Directors

Charlotte Eve and Elliot Dyke

Lighting

Norrie Brown and Oliver Szikszay

Sound

Polly Morgan and Shiguma Nakasone

Backstage and Props

Alex Mowbray, Kinzi Welsby and Lucy Williams

Prompt

Charlotte Eve

Donne: “The Case of the Five Pound Notes” by Donn Byrne

 

£12,000 has been stolen but there is only confusion as the police try to establish who is spending the missing money.

 

 

Cast

 

Superintendant Keyes

Tom Gonzalez

Inspector Bright

Lara White

Inspector Price

Biba Gonzalez

Sergeant Driver

Jeff Koopman

Felstead

James Wilcox-Jones

Mrs Cross

Emma Chapman

Woods

Tristan Chidlow

Thomas Lamb

Katherine Stockdale

Waitress

George Read

Village Policeman

Eric Bester

 

 

Production

 

Directors

James Wilcox-Jones, Emma Chapman and Tristan Chidlow

Lighting

Jamie Graham

Backstage

Vincent Chu, Will Hung, Ivan Mok and Kendrick Leung