Lower School Drama: 'In a Garden in China'

Date: Tuesday 24 March 2009

Lower School Drama Club has been meeting weekly since the start of the Lent Term, when turnout was pleasingly healthy. We spent a couple of weeks working mainly on improvisation and role play. However, the pupils were keen to ‘do a play’! By the third week of term we had a script, had held auditions and plans were underway for ‘In a Garden in China’ a play telling the story of the Willow Pattern Plate.

We rehearsed as much as we possibly could, roped in the Junior Singers to join in our Chorus and pretty soon things began to take shape. The dancers choreographed their own moves, with a little help from Mrs Richardson and Mrs Thompson.

Parents rallied round to help the cast learn their lines and to find costumes – not an easy task after the Chinese pyjama stall on Canterbury Market disappeared!

The pupils treated their parents, grandparents and siblings to a tremendous performance, and we were very proud with what they achieved in such a relatively short time frame.