Year 11 Stand-up Comedy

Stand-up comedy is not an easy genre to perform. Our Year 11's "romped it home" and had the audience in the 'palm of their hands' on the Year 11 Comedy Night.

Year 10 Performance Poetry

Congratulations Year 10 Drama students on your interesting and engaging interpretations of poetry 'From the page to the Stage.' :-)

Year 8 mime and movement

Commedia dell’Arte workshop

The Year 10 Drama students were given the opportunity to workshop with the masks of Commedia dell’Arte to expand their knowledge base and their acting skills.
The after-school workshop was run by Dennis Murphy (a Sydney actor and puppeteer) who taught the girls more about Commedia and its Italian origins, and provided them the opportunity to experiment with masks and character of tharly but influential genre of theatre.


Dennis Murphy is Australia’s leading exponent of Commedia dell’Arte. While he performs in both Mask and Puppetry, his real passion is for the Puppetry branch of the art.



Dennis’ puppetry has won him widespread acclaim in Australia and the ‘Ural Citation’ for excellence in Russia. In Italy he presents his shows in Italian and has performed in a wide variety of venues from atop the medieval walls of Treviso to an outdoor fair in the shadows of Juliet’s castle. Dennis represented Australia at the 1998 ‘Teatri del Mondo Festival’ in Italy.
He commutes regularly to Italy to perform at puppet festivals and to carry out research. The theatre critic of Rome’s L’UNITA newspaper called him “one of the world’s greatest puppeteers”. Over the last decade Dennis has shared his
passion for the “Commedia dell’ Arte” tradition with tens of thousands of Australian school children.




































Learn more about Commedia dell’Arte:
Wikipedia
Commedia dell'Arte