Students in the Year 9 Drama and Circus class have created and performed their own short skits.
They incorporated circus skills including juggling, flower sticks, plates and diabolo.
Circus promotes life-skills including self-discipline, confidence and creativity and students developed these by creating their own works and performing to their peers.
Student Peter said he enjoyed performing and the audience interaction.
“We had to include circus apparatus into our plays and they needed to run for the right amount of time,” he said.
“I felt like people thought I was funny, I was almost about to laugh too but I managed to keep it together.”
Student Will said one of the challenges his group faced was having students away during rehearsals and performances.
He said he enjoyed having an audience.
“At the start I was pretty nervous until I could hear people were laughing and enjoying it,” he said.
Madison agreed that having an audience interact with the performance helped to ease the nerves.
“When I made eye contact with the audience and saw they were laughing it makes you perform better to make it more engaging.”
Creating their dramatic works required students to work together and be adaptable.
Student DJ said his group revised their storyline several times.
“It was pretty hard, at first we were going to do an aeroplane heist but that was hard, then we were going to do a bank heist but we ended up doing an office heist,” he said.
Mia’s group crafted a skit around a video game.
“We sat down for a good two lessons trying to figure out an idea,” she said.
“Then we didn’t have group members there so we had to come up with a backup plan.
“We used our costumes for inspiration and it led us to the video game idea.”
Student Isabella said she enjoyed the opportunity to use her imagination.
“I enjoyed that we got to be creative, there were no boundaries on what we could do.”
