This year I was fortunate enough to enlist the amazing skills of Fremantle based performance artist Paul Rowe in Term 3 with my Year 11s and 9s, to run improvisation workshops. 

We worked together to run some after school workshops with Year 11s to devise their play 'The Widow’s Case'. What resulted was a sophisticated script based on the theme of Respect starring fully formed characters straight from the students’ imaginations. 

Year 11s also rose to the challenge of staging the highly energetic '15 Minute Hamlet' by Tom Stoppard. They mastered the Shakespearean language, frantic scene transitions and larger than life characterisation with great skill. Congratulations to all involved and a big thank you to Year 10 students who undertook backstage roles to support the show.

To celebrate we went to see Disney’s 'Mary Poppins' at Crown Theatre and the large-scale production did not disappoint. It was truly one of the most eye-popping, awe-inspiring productions I’ve seen to date!

For those who are interested our local theatre company KADS (based in the new Mall in central Kalamunda) is running a youth theatre company and classes start on 9 January, see below for details.