Performance Troupe 2011
We currently have 3 Performance Troupe Ensembles: Junior, Intermediate and Senior in 2011. These talented young actors perform at local events and locations across the Hunter as well as enter eisteddfods and competitions across NSW. Read about their recent success below!!
NOTE: Performance Troupe is by invitation only. Places for this prominent troupe are refreshed at the beginning of each year.
McDonald’s Sydney Eisteddfod 2011 WINNERS
Group Devised Scene (Any Age)
Hunter Region Drama School has again proven that Hunter Region talent is of national standard. HRDS’s Performance Troupe entered the Group Devised Category (open age) yesterday (June 5) at the prestigious Scots College in Sydney and came home WINNERS!
HRDS entered 3 performances. “TWISTED”, a colourful story of fairy tale characters banding together to fight a common enemy…US! The people of the 21st Century, who have allegedly forgotten all about the “Old Guard” and have become too caught up with Harry Potter and various other modern day characters. The second performance “ACTING SCHOOL ACADEMY FOR ACTORS” was about a group of students going through Acting School and learning that you have to be patient and determined to do whatever it takes to get noticed and ultimately become a professional actor.
The Winning performance was titled “THE GRANNY MURDERS”. A comical look at the generation gap between the young people of today and some bitter old Grandmothers. Set in a hair salon, grannies getting their hair done, bicker and gossip about how the young people of today aren’t like they use to be, until one young hairdresser determined to stick up for herself revolts against the patronizing oppression and decides to get even. In the style of a classic Agatha Christie “Who-dun-it” murder mystery, generation Y get their own back in this tale of revenge.
Adjudicator Lynette Pierse (1983 NIDA graduate and now Improvisation teacher at NIDA and Actors Centre) complimented our students on how dynamic the performance was,
“The style of melodrama was very exciting for the audience. Granny Murders had a fun and entertaining spirit of work. Was great to see the students taking risks within their performance.”
All performances had to be under 10 minutes and were devised and performed by HRDS students between the age of 9 and 17. The category was open to all ages.
The winning students included Jerry Ray, Taya Calder-Mason, Bianca Bunn, Claire Campbell, Jennifer Cooksley, Jesse Dean, Macayla Eberhard, Adam Grossenbacher (CONDA Youth Scholarship Winner), Deanne Hotchkies.
All performances can be seen again at HRDS’s WOW Fest performances at the Civic Playhouse 24th – 26th Nov.