Cokethorpe School

Drama

Curriculum

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Previous Performances

  • Love's Labour's Lost photo

    Love's Labour's Lost (9 July 2010)
    The final Drama performance of the year was the fantastic Love's Labour's Lost on a sweltering Prize Giving afternoon in the Upper Quad...

  • Uniformity - A Dance Suite photo

    Uniformity - A Dance Suite (1 July 2010)
    Pupils, parents, friends and staff enjoy an amazing feast of dance displays in The Shed...

  • Year 7 Drama Performance: The Witches photo

    Year 7 Drama Performance: The Witches (29 June 2010)
    The Year 7 production of The Witches proved to be a glorious romp into the world of bald heads, blue teeth, mice, and dog droppings...

  • Year 8 Drama Performance: Mythipedia photo

    Year 8 Drama Performance: Mythipedia (28 June 2010)
    The Year 8 production of Mythipedia was a superb exposition of physical theatre and the comical flair of a very talented year group...

  • AS Drama Performance: A Clockwork Orange photo

    AS Drama Performance: A Clockwork Orange (27 May 2010)
    The Lower Sixth Theatre Studies students performed their ensemble piece as part of their AS examination in front of the Edexcel examiners on Thursday 27 May in The Shed...

  • A2 Drama Performance: Long Grove Asylum photo

    A2 Drama Performance: Long Grove Asylum (26 April 2010)
    The Upper Sixth Drama and Theatre Studies candidates presented Long Grove Asylum – Lost Lives on 26 and 27 April as part of their Unit 3 A Level....

  • If You Go Down To The Woods Today... photo

    If You Go Down To The Woods Today... (17 March 2010)
    The Performing Arts performance of 'If You Go Down To The Woods Today...' was, as one audience member commented, 'an incredible production'. Read the full review and view photos from the play here...

  • Year 11: The Crucible photo

    Year 11: The Crucible (8 February 2010)
    During the Lent Term the Year 11 Drama students presented extracts from Arthur Miller's The Crucible as part of their GCSE course...

  • Senior School Christmas Production photo

    Senior School Christmas Production (14 December 2009)
    The Senior School Christmas Production of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector was performed in The Shed over two evenings...

  • Michaelmas Term Theatre Trips photo

    Michaelmas Term Theatre Trips (15 October 2009)
    A review of the two theatre trips taken during the Michaelmas Term 2009...

  • Year 11 Theatre in Education photo

    Year 11 Theatre in Education (12 October 2009)
    Year 11 perform The Tempest and Twelfth Night to the Junior School children as part of their course of Theatre in Education...

  • Drama Scholars' Lunchtime Presentation photo

    Drama Scholars' Lunchtime Presentation (6 October 2009)
    The Drama Scholars performed a wonderfully eclectic programme in The Shed at lunchtime on Tuesday 6 October 2009...

  • AlternEIGHTive Tales photo

    AlternEIGHTive Tales (30 June 2009)
    Year 8 pupils performed their various madcap, comic tales including The Scary Tale of the Werewolf, The Time Machine, The Beach Trip and High Noon...

  • The Canterbury Tales photo

    The Canterbury Tales (24 June 2009)
    All Year 7 pupils took part in a performance of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer on 24 June in The Shed...

  • Shorter Shakespeare photo

    Shorter Shakespeare (5 June 2009)
    In the cooler venue of the Upper Quad, Year 9 performed to 200 people on a balmy summer’s evening ...

  • Twelve Dreams  photo

    Twelve Dreams (13 May 2009)
    On 13 and 14 May 2009, the AS Theatre Studies students performed Twelve Dreams in The Shed as part of their practical examination...

  • Inter-House Drama Competition photo

    Inter-House Drama Competition (20 March 2009)
    Each group presented an episode from the legendary sitcom Fawlty Towers and the houses were there in full support of the hilarious escapades on show...

  • Iolanthe photo

    Iolanthe (18 March 2009)
    As dusk fell and the mist rose, something magical happened - out of the air-vents, dustbins and almost as if from nowhere, the fairies appeared...

  • GCSE Assessments: Drug Culture photo

    GCSE Assessments: Drug Culture (10 March 2009)
    Year 11 Drama students were assessed on their devised work during the Lent Term, drawing on their research, script-writing, improvisation and directing skills...

  • Year 7 Mime photo

    Year 7 Mime (5 March 2009)
    The whole of Year 7 took part in a lunchtime performance of mime, drawing on a term's hard work of experimenting and devising with this most challenging of forms...

  • Year 8 Physical Theatre photo

    Year 8 Physical Theatre (26 February 2009)
    During the Lent Term Year 8 have begun to experiment with the complexities of Physical Theatre and develop weird and wonderful machines, using only their bodies and imagination...

  • All Through the House photo

    All Through the House (10 December 2008)
    This year’s Senior School Christmas Production, a festive comedy entitled All Through the House by William Gleason, was expertly performed at the end of term by a cast that included pupils ranging from Year 7 to Year 13...

  • Secrets and Lies: The Protocols photo

    Secrets and Lies: The Protocols (19 November 2008)
    The Year 13 Theatre Studies students presented their A2 Devised Examination Performance in The Shed on 19 and 20 November...

  • The Crucible photo

    The Crucible (8 November 2008)
    The Year 11 Drama pupils took to the stage to complete their penultimate GCSE performance assessments...

  • Much Ado About Nothing photo

    Much Ado About Nothing (11 July 2008)
    The marquee was packed as we sheltered from the rain where we were treated to a marvellous performance of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing...

  • Year 8: Alternative Fairy Tales photo

    Year 8: Alternative Fairy Tales (26 June 2008)
    Year 8 had been set a task - to take a well known, traditional fairy tale and write a contemporary version whilst maintaining the core themes or moral of the story...

  • Year 7: Troy 24 photo

    Year 7: Troy 24 (25 June 2008)
    On Wednesday June 25, the whole of Year 7 performed Troy 24 by David Calcutt. The Shed became the setting for the Trojan War where the heroes Achilles and Hector faced each other in battle...

  • GCSE Assesment: The Dangers of Drugs photo

    GCSE Assesment: The Dangers of Drugs (9 May 2008)
    The Year 11 Drama pupils' practical work culminated in five 20 minute performances dealing with the issues surrounding drug abuse...

  • A2 Level Exam Performance: Our Country's Good photo

    A2 Level Exam Performance: Our Country's Good (24 April 2008)
    This student led production of Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker transferred from the original setting of a 19th century penal colony to that of a present day lunatic asylum...

  • A2 Level Performance Examination: Dr Faustus photo

    A2 Level Performance Examination: Dr Faustus (24 April 2008)
    This student led adaptation of Dr Faustus develops Christopher Marlowe's original idea and brings it into the 21st century...

  • AS Level Exam Performance: Metamorphosis photo

    AS Level Exam Performance: Metamorphosis (24 April 2008)
    The chilling tale of the Samsa family whose son transforms overnight into a giant beetle was brought to life in the AS examination performance of Kafka’s Metamorphosis in April...