‘Selfie’

Senior Drama students have been working for the last 12 weeks on their Group Production ‘Selfie’ by Bradley Hayward. On Thursday and Friday of Week 4, students performed this play to a live audience in the Balaklava High School Performing Arts Theatre. This play explored the different issues faced by young people in our society. It had a number of difficult topics including; Social Media, Friendship Issues, Health Issues and Eating Disorders to name a few. As a result, the Senior Drama classes decided they wanted to incorporate fundraising elements to their performance raising a total of $171.45 for The Butterfly Foundation, who support young people living with an eating disorder. Students raised the money by organising a bake sale for the State Election and a raffle on the night.

A huge thank you to Mrs Cowan who supported both the students and myself in production week.

‘BHfest’

Year 9 Drama students have been learning about all the roles that are involved in making a theatre company. As a part of this, the Year 9 Drama students formed their own production company called ‘BHS Star Production’ with their own logo. They then worked towards creating a festival aimed at our feeder schools. We had students from Balaklava Primary School and Mallala Primary School attended BHfest, which was on Tuesday of Week 5.  Despite losing some actors to COVID, this was a very successful morning.

A special thank you to the Senior Drama students who stepped in on the day to support and read in different parts.

Suriya Umapathysivam