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Mvula Primary School, Nyanga - Arts and Drama Festival 2009

Posted by Yogam Yoga on August 27, 2009

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Drama School in Stellenbosch

The Helen O’Grady Drama Academy has been running for over 30 years internationally and operates from St Paul’s Church Hall in Stellenbosch. This university town has long tradition of performance arts. Currently students from the Helen O’Grady Drama Academy are performing in Antony and Cleopatra under the direction of Marthinus Basson, one of Stellenbosch University’s renowned lecturers. Many of the Academy’s students have over the last few years been presenters on television, acted in films and have been seen in adverts broadcast in South Africa and around the world. The Academy’s franchised drama programme in Stellenbosch, follows an award-winning curriculum not only designed to develop performance arts skills but also confidence, creativity and most importantly communication skills. Whilst many of the students of the Academy’s first language is Africans and Xhosa, the drama school is keen to develop good articulate communication in English. Teaching improvisation helps students to b

Rising Star, Phoenix Kirkwood, wins t-shirt design competition

Phoenix Kirkwood, a student at the Helen O'Grady Drama Academy in Hout Bay, won a competition to design a new t-shirt for the Academy. His idea which with a world and a man standing on top with the wording 'All the world's my stage' was the outright winner. Principal of the Academy, Duncan Rice 'The Helen O'Grady Drama Academy is a child-centred drama school and therefore we try to use the creative ideas of the children as much as possible. Phoenix's design really sums up what our Academy is about in developing confidence, self-esteem and giving children the ability to believe in themselves. Changing Shakespeare's line slightly creates the dramatic effect we were looking for on a t-shirt which is about a drama school.' This T-shirt will be worn by children throughout the world who attend the Helen O'Grady Drama Academy so we are very proud of his design.' In the photo you can see Phoenix with this classmates from the Helen O&

The Cleanest Town in Texas performed at the French School, Cape Town

'The Cleanest Town in Texas' is a story set in Abaline, a town that has no drinking, no smoking and no swearing, until Lulabelle arrives on a stagecoach and changes everything. She joins forces with the town's scamster and together they steal the propert of all the people in the town. However, soon Jellybone, Lulabelle's assistant, gets his revenge by selling a plot of trick land to them. The students performed this play with authentic Wild West accents much to the amusement of the audience.

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Mvula Primary School, Nyanga - Arts and Drama Festival 2009

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