Local school wows international children
Sacred Heart College’s videoconferencing facility has given pupils an opportunity to collaborate internationally in performing arts.
A programme called TheatreLink, run by the Manhattan Theatre Company in New York, made this possible.
Sacred Heart’s grade 11 dramatic arts class produced The Disappearance for the Theatrelink project.
Only 20 schools worldwide participate in this initiative. Schools write original plays for their partner schools to produce, and watch each other’s work through live video conferencing.
The classes then discuss the streamed performance with their partner school.
The Disappearance was written by a school in Texas. In turn, a school in Florida produced a play called Amandla written by Sacred Heart College.
The Sacred Heart College Grade 11 class performed The Disappearance to pupils and visitors in the school’s Old Chapel Theatre on May 30.
The play revolves around a disjointed family dealing with an abusive relative, and a mistake that two sisters make to protect their grandmother from her son’s actions.
By attending video conference lectures, the class learnt about and were assigned theatre jobs such as acting, stage managing, set and costume designing, make-up and marketing.
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