Annual awards for speech and drama students

PUPILS of Urvashi Bhika’s Speech and Drama Studio celebrated their annual awards recently. They performed to a packed venue and displayed their talents, in their beautiful costumes, to their parents, family and friends.

The audience journeyed from the jungle full of wild animals in doubt, to the roaring 1930s with feuding boys and girls. They travelled from an SABC newsroom with Notes from a Gogo’s Diary to a little burlesque from Aunties Julie and Rookie from Lenasia. They were then swept off to Hogwarts’ darker side of Harry Potter and to Southern USA with a girl named Juniper. Awardees included pupils who passed Trinity Guildhall Examinations. They are: Zarna Vallabh (Grade Two with a merit pass), Zahra Chothia (Grade Three with a merit pass), Zeenat Moolla (Grade Eigth with a merit pass) and Sonia Bhika (Grade Six with a distinction).

“I am very proud of my pupils and their efforts. Communication is a vital life skill and speech and drama is the way to go when you, as a parent, want to teach your children to competently express themselves. It is a tool for confidence and self-worth, and can be seen as cornerstones of emotional and mental growth,” said Urvashi.

Pupils from Bassonia, Glenvista, Meyersdal, Alberton, Ridgeway, Winchester Hills, Robertsham, Ormonde, and as far as Lenasia attend her studio.