Tallis Drama Studio

Just a reminder we are GOING LIVE this Wednesday at 6th Form Open Evening!

Our Year 12 Drama A-Level students working on their performance pieces for Open Evening based on Metamorphosis. Here they are demonstrating some of the Physical Theatre lifts they have been working on.

A little tour of some of our Facilities in the Drama Department. The Josh Beasley Studio has a full lighting rig and sound system making it an excellent performance space as well as our training class room.

Today we had 80 students across Years 7, 8, 9 & 10 Audition for our 2 Theatre Companies! On Wednesday we’ll be posting the Invitations to each Company (TAG - Tallis Actors Guild on Mondays, Tallis Drama Company on Fridays) outside the Josh Beasley Studio! Then we can start next week on preparing for this Year’s Drama Shows! Well done everyone who came to Audition!

Summer Term has officially begun! That can only mean one thing.... Exam Season!! Year 11 GCSE have 3 weeks until their final exam performances - they will be having a showcase evening in 2 weeks time so keep your eyes peeled for that - more info coming soon. Year 12 A-Level have 6 weeks until their Component 1 exam - and Year 10 GCSE have 9 weeks until their Component 1 as well! Year 13 have their final exam before graduating and heading off to University in June... We wish them all the best of Luck!! As well as the Exams this term we have Year 7 winning the lottery & after finding their luxury cruises shipwrecked they get to explore "The Island"... And Year 8 will be getting to grips with Melodrama performance & preparing their own version of "Sweeney Todd." Finally, Year 9 GCSE will be exploring the play "Blood Brothers" and completing a Mock of their Component 2 exam right before the summer break. Alongside the Fantastic work being done in class within the department, we also have TWO shows beginning rehearsals this week - the KS3 theatre company (The Tallis DramaLlamas) are performing "Hood" in June, and the Tallis Actor's Guild (TAG) will be staging their own abridged version of "Curious Incident" in July. More information on these coming soon also. We're excited for this term - we hope you're equally excited to stay up to date with our students work! Don't forget to check out our Instagram @TallisDrama Ms McAndrews

Year 7 began their new SOW today by exploring what "Family" means to them. Here are a few of their Family Portraits.

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Some more face art from Ms Smyth for the KS3 Theatre Company!

The KS3 Theatre company have been busy looking at the Myth and Legends of Cerridwen & Taliesin for a Performance Project coming this Summer! And Ms Smyth kindy did some face painting work with them! Looking good! Can’t wait to see the Welsh Gods & Animals brought to life this Summer! - Ms Mc

The #PerformingArts Winter show “Tallis in Wonderland” is this Wednesday 14th December in the Tallis Main Hall 7-9pm. Tickets are available on the door, please come along and support the Bands, Dancers and Performers involved! 

Tallis Teacher Profile ~ Drama Department 2016-2017 So just who are the #TallisDrama Teachers in the Department this year? Next up, we have Ms Clubbe. Ms Clubbe studied Drama at The University of Lincoln and Goldsmiths, University of London where she developed a love for both modern and traditional Drama. As well as being a Drama specialist she is also trained in Musical Theatre. Musical Theatre has been a huge part of her life, performing in A Midsummer Nights Dream Ballet, Hairspray, Calamity Jane, Westside Story and many more, all performed in professional theatres across the South West. In later life she continued to focus upon her Drama performing as “The Bride” in Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca, “Blanche” in A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, ‘Shanice Roberts’ in Fall out by Roy Williams and “Marina” in Shakespeare’s Pericles, a mix of both modern and traditional pieces of Drama. With a love of Physical Theatre she has trained in workshops with companies such as Frantic Assembly, DV8, Punch Drunk and Complicite. After her time at University, she professionally directed plays such a The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, The Sea by Edward Bond and Alice by Laura Wade. For a short amount of time she worked as a Stage manager for ‘The Trial” at The Lincoln Theatre. She later turned towards Education starting work with Young Offenders, teaching Shakespeare Workshops to a range of schools, running Drama Club’s for independent schools and assisting students with Special Educational Needs, before receiving her Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London and joining the Thomas Tallis team.

On Tuesday 13th December the Year 13 A-Level Drama cohort will be going to RADA studios in London to see Splendid Theatre’s Production of Macbeth for their Unit 4 written exam (Section C Shakespeare Essay). They’ve worked with Splendid before and Love their style so it should be very interesting and make a great performance to compare to the original performance conditions!  

Year 12 Contemplating Marriage this week in their Lessons on “Machinal” - Exploring the text practically in a Naturalistic VS Expressionist style.

The Year 13′s did an AMAZING job in their Unit 3 Devising Performance Exam on Wednesday night! The audience were suitably impressed with the way they tackling both political and personal themes, and for the energy and skill that they put in to their performances. Well Done everyone!