Drama

• A typical year's activities
• Visiting artists
• Our vision

A typical year's activities

Drama is very popular and successful outside the curriculum.

Every year students stage musicals, contemporary drama, home-grown work, devised work and Shakespeare.

The following is a list of annual activities by students. It is typical of what students can expect:

• Host a full programme of visiting companies and artists supported by North East Arts Touring, which brings professional touring performances to the north east of Scotland
• Organise a dance festival, with performances by professional dancers, local schools and Gordonstoun students
• Stage a new musical interpretation
• Tour local Primary Schools
• Enjoy Staff performing sketches
• Present a festival of plays performed by Year 12 and 13 students
• Production by Year 10 students
• Perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
• Stage various House presentations of Dance and Drama

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Visiting artists

Each year we host visiting theatre companies and artists who lead workshops and put on performances. Recent visitors include:

• Scottish Youth Theatre
• Wee Stories
• Ophaboom
• Catherine Wheels Theatre Company
• Licketyspit

We enjoy an excellent relationship with North East Arts Touring, who help organise and support many of the visiting companies.

Please visit our Ogstoun Theatre News site to see what's coming soon.

Recent productions include:

Recent School Musicals

• We Will Rock You performed by Senior Students
• The Mysteries performed by Senior Students
• Cabaret performed by Senior Students
• Bugsy Malone performed by Junior Students
• That Was Then This Is Now performed by Senior Students and on tour to the USA
• Grease
• A Slice of Saturday Night performed by Junior Students

Recent School Shakespeare Productions

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (also on tour to Scottish Prep Schools, performed at the Edinburgh Festival and invited to the USA in 2010)
• Hamlet (performed at The Fringe and received a 4 star review from The Scotsman)
• Macbeth 2006 (also on tour to Prep Schools and performed at the Edinburgh Festival and on tour in New York)
• The Merchant of Venice 2005 (also on tour to local High School and performed as part of the BBC Shakespeare Festival)
• Romeo and Juliet 2004 (also on tour to castles and garden in Scotland and England)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2003 (also performed at the Edinburgh Festival) 
• Hamlet 2003 (also performed at the Edinburgh Festival)
• Twelfth Night 2002

Recent School Plays

• The Last Resort performed by Year 10 students
• Something Wicked this Way Comes performed by Year 10 students
• Daisy Pulls It Off performed by Year 11 students
• Heroes performed by Year 10 students
• The Exam performed by Year 10 students
• The Crucible performed by Year 11 students
• Happy Endings performed by Year 10 students on tour at Prep Schools at the Royal National Theatre
• Footloose performed by Senior Students and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
• Equus performed by Year 13 students
• The Untold Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Year 10 students on tour at Prep Schools

Recent Exam Performance Work

2009 - see separate News item

• Eye for Eye
• Stranger Than Strange
• Wanno Go
• The Bloody Chamber
• Columbinus
• Emma
• Monkey

2008 - see separate News item

• Sexual Perversity in Chicago
• Hamlet
• Metamorphoses
• The Jungle Book
• Shakers
• Dr Korczak's Example
• Antigone
• The Yarn

2007 - see separate News item

• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
• The Company of Wolves
• Waiting for Godot
• My Mother Said
• The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
• Vinegar Tom
• The Trial
• Animal Farm
• Blood Brothers

2006

• A Clockwork Orange
• Othello
• Shakers
• Teechers
• Blue Remembered Hills
• The Cagebirds
• The Real Inspector Hound
• Find Me

Recent Staff Shows

• The sketches and songs of Monty Python
• Ye Olde Victorian Music Hall
• Staff Stars in Your Eyes
• A Gordonstoun Christmas Carol
• The Wizards of Gordonstoun

Recent Gordonstoun OG Shows

• The Famous Five Go To Edinburgh performed at the Edinburgh Festival
• Sexual Perversity in Chicago performed at the Edinburgh Festival

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Our vision

Gordonstoun Drama and Dance Department shall pursue excellence in all areas of academic work. We will, through extra-curricular activities:

• provide opportunities for as many students, teachers and others as possible to be involved in creating and implementing a programme of arts events;
• create a programme of productions, visits and visiting artists that will be available and accessible to the school community and the wider community around the school;
• be sensitive to the needs, talents and abilities of the student and school community in creating the programme, while still providing a varied, diverse and challenging programme;
• maintain a high level of quality in creating and implementing the programme; and
• create opportunities to show students' theatre and dance work:
  • within the school;
  • in the wider community around the school; and
  • at national and international festivals.

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