Drama
Play your part!
Each year, girls across the School have the opportunity to be in a School production. Barbreck girls can star in the Junior School Musical and Years 7 and 8 girls have the opportunity to participate in their own large cast play, ensuring everyone has a role to play.
In Years 9 and 10, the productions are held in conjunction with St Kevin's College. The Senior Play features our Years 11 and 12 performers alongside male cast members from an affiliated boys' school. All rehearsals for these Plays are after school and on Sundays.
Our not-to-be-missed annual drama event is House Drama, where Beaulieu Blair, Davis, Holmes Kilbride and Langley Templeton, led by their respective House leaders - act, sing and dance to a full house audience, as they aim to win for their House. This competition also allows students the opportunity to try their hand at make-up for theatre, writing, composing, costumes, lighting, sound mixing and other stage crafts.
For Drama students keen to gain specialist skills and instruction, private tuition is available in individual and group sessions, which follows the Australian Music Examinations Board's (AMEB) Speech and Drama syllabus.
Our Drama Program for 2010:
- Senior Play with St Kevin's College, to be advised, hosted by St Kevin's - 17-19 March
- The Boyfriend, with St Kevin's College, hosted by St Catherine's - 19 to 21 May
Our Drama Program for 2009:
- King Oedipus, Senior Play with St Kevin's College, hosted by St Kevin's - 18 to 20 March
- Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Whole School Opera with St Kevin's College, hosted by St Catherine's at Toorak Uniting Church - 24 April
- Kabuki Lady Macbeth, Units 1 to 4 Theatre Studies Play - 26 May
- Alice in Wonderland, Years 7 and 8 Play - 2 to 3 June
- Rumors by Neil Simon, Senior Play with St Kevin's College, hosted by St Catherine's - 13 to 14 August
Our Drama Program for 2008:
- Our Country's Good (Years 11 & 12 Play with Scotch College) - 1 to 3 May
- A Grim Night for Some (Years 7 & 8 Play) - 27 & 28 May
- Othello (Year 10 Play with St Kevin's College) - 18 to 20 June
- An Evening with Molière (Year 9 Play with St Kevin's College) - 6 to 8 August
- Stepping Out (Senior Play) - 14 & 15 August
- Arabian Nights (Year 8 Play with St Kevin's College) - 29 to 31 October
- House Arts Festival Performance - 4 December
A snapshot of other recent Drama events:
- What Cedric the Soothsayer Said (Years 7 & 8 Play)
- The House of Bernada Alba (Senior Play)
- Daisy Pulls It Off (Senior Play)
- Body and Soul (Year 9 Play with St Kevin's College)
- Macbeth (Year 10 Play with St Kevin's College)