Drama
Students gain great experience for 
life and leisure in the St. Andrew’s Drama class. The class is half a year long and culminates in the Spring Drama Production. Facing the fear of getting up and acting in front of an audience as well as looking the fool during practices helps our students to face fears, particularly in the realm of public speaking. Drama experience also opens up our students’ eyes to storytelling, narrative, dialogue and the arts in general.
Students are often involved not just in acting, but in leading the charge in costuming, set design, and even adapting short stories for the stage, as students did for the 2006 productions of The Blue Cross, a Father Brown mystery by G. K. Chesterton and The Coming of Gowf, by P. G. Wodehouse.
Last year, the students wanted to return to Shakespeare, so they produced Shakespeare in Love: A Review, which had the audience laughing in the aisles. Previous productions include A Secret Garden in 2005, Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew (2004), Much Ado About Nothing (2003), Dorothy Sayer’s A Certain Nobleman (2002), and Kings in Judaea (2001) both of which were written as radio plays and were adapted to stage by the St. Andrew’s Academy Players. In Spring of 2000, the first St. Andrew’s production was a medieval mystery play, Noah’s Flood.
captions: Waterman girls and Mikala Jensen in The Secret Garden, Andrew Bradley and Joe Salvatore in the same, and finally, the cast shot from The Coming of Gowf.
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