Welcome to the John McGlashan College Drama Department!
Ms Fridd, Teacher in Charge
“Drama expresses human experience through a focus on role, action, and tension, played out in time and space. In drama education, students learn to structure these elements and to use dramatic conventions, techniques, and technologies to create imagined worlds. Through purposeful play, both individual and collaborative, they discover how to link imagination, thoughts, and feelings.
As students work with drama techniques, they learn to use spoken and written language with increasing control and confidence and to communicate effectively using body language, movement, and space. As they perform, analyse, and respond to different forms of drama and theatre, they gain a deeper appreciation of their rich cultural heritage and language and new power to examine attitudes, behaviours, and values.
By means of the drama that they create and perform, students reflect and enrich the cultural life of their schools, whānau, and communities.” - New Zealand Curriculum
Drama is an exciting subject. It is both an academic AND a practical subject. Theatre has a history stretching back over two and a half thousand years, and drama as a subject has been used in education for over a hundred years.
It is a field of study not only for those who aspire to become performers, but also for those who wish to become creative thinkers, confident communicators, and team players. The subject of drama helps drama students develop good memories and strong communication skills, and helps them to think 'outside the square'.
FUTURE STUDIES/CAREER OPTIONS
● Variety of tertiary courses in theatre, performing arts, drama, dance, music, art and media studies...
● Excellent ‘companion’ course for industries that involve people e.g. law, education, politics, health, hospitality, sports, media, business, tourism, management…
● Careers such as; stage manager, T.V / Radio commentator/reporter/presenter, playwright, set/lighting/costume designer or technician, actor, director, editor, cameraman, critic/reviewer…
● Increases employability by developing key competencies such as managing self, relating to others, participating and contributing in a practical environment
“The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts,
but is also the return of art to life.”
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Ms Fridd, Teacher in Charge
“Drama expresses human experience through a focus on role, action, and tension, played out in time and space. In drama education, students learn to structure these elements and to use dramatic conventions, techniques, and technologies to create imagined worlds. Through purposeful play, both individual and collaborative, they discover how to link imagination, thoughts, and feelings.
As students work with drama techniques, they learn to use spoken and written language with increasing control and confidence and to communicate effectively using body language, movement, and space. As they perform, analyse, and respond to different forms of drama and theatre, they gain a deeper appreciation of their rich cultural heritage and language and new power to examine attitudes, behaviours, and values.
By means of the drama that they create and perform, students reflect and enrich the cultural life of their schools, whānau, and communities.” - New Zealand Curriculum
Drama is an exciting subject. It is both an academic AND a practical subject. Theatre has a history stretching back over two and a half thousand years, and drama as a subject has been used in education for over a hundred years.
It is a field of study not only for those who aspire to become performers, but also for those who wish to become creative thinkers, confident communicators, and team players. The subject of drama helps drama students develop good memories and strong communication skills, and helps them to think 'outside the square'.
FUTURE STUDIES/CAREER OPTIONS
● Variety of tertiary courses in theatre, performing arts, drama, dance, music, art and media studies...
● Excellent ‘companion’ course for industries that involve people e.g. law, education, politics, health, hospitality, sports, media, business, tourism, management…
● Careers such as; stage manager, T.V / Radio commentator/reporter/presenter, playwright, set/lighting/costume designer or technician, actor, director, editor, cameraman, critic/reviewer…
● Increases employability by developing key competencies such as managing self, relating to others, participating and contributing in a practical environment
“The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts,
but is also the return of art to life.”
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)