Performances & Productions Archives

16 Oct HSC noms for visual and performing arts

Posted at 16:59h in Awards, Boarding, Drama, General, HSC, Leadership, Music, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School, Visual Arts

It has been a hugely successful week for our 2020 HSC cohort in the visual and performing arts arena. Many nominations have been received across Music, Drama, Dance and Visual Arts for the respective showcases and exhibitions. Nominees for Encore, a concert showcasing outstanding performances and...

04 Sep A riot of colour for Book Week

Posted at 10:29h in Co-Curricular, Community, General, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School

Although Book Week has been officially moved to October this year, our Senior School kept it in August as usual, so it didn't clash with exams next term. And what a fun Book Week we had! It began with The Body in the Library – a...

08 May A nod for our Mr Charlton

Posted at 09:52h in Community, General, Leadership, Music, News, Performances & Productions

Mr Richard Charlton, Ascham's Composer-in-Residence and Coordinator of Guitar Studies, was recently named one of 'Nine Outstanding Australian Composers' in the online music magazine Interlude. Richard has been teaching at Ascham for 38 years. As well as his current roles, he was formerly Director of Music...

25 Feb Year 9 meets Tribal Warriors

Posted at 10:49h in Community, Drama, General, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School

We were recently honoured with a visit by three Cultural Educators from the Tribal Warrior Aboriginal Corporation. Year 9 Elective Drama students participated in a workshop with Neville, Aroha and Joan, who helped them explore the Year 9 Drama unit on Reconciliation. Through chorus and ritual...

18 Nov Nods for HSC Drama, Music and Visual Arts

Posted at 15:22h in Boarding, Drama, General, HSC, Music, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School, Visual Arts

Our Year 12 girls have kicked some artistic goals lately with news that their endeavours across drama, music and visual arts are being held in high regard by HSC markers. Nominated for OnSTAGE, the showcase of exemplary HSC Drama Individual Performances and Group Performances, were nine...

04 Nov Do We Ever See Grace?

Posted at 13:18h in Boarding, Co-Curricular, Community, Drama, General, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School

At Ascham we love our drama and last weekend's Middle School Production Do We Ever See Grace? was dramatic, bold, colourful and brilliant. Twenty-seven students from Years 7, 8 and 9 took to the stage of the Packer Theatre. Director Mr Jon Suffolk described the play:...

01 Aug Eton Choral Course

Posted at 14:24h in Co-Curricular, General, Leadership, Music, News, Overseas Tours & Exchanges, Performances & Productions, Senior School

Every year, two or three Ascham girls are lucky enough to attend the Eton Choral course in the UK. This year, Year 11 students Ruby Alexander and Gretel Power spent the week in Eton's hallowed halls, getting a taste of one of the world's great...

14 Jun Lauren shines on stage

Posted at 08:51h in Co-Curricular, Community, General, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School

At only 13 years of age, Ascham student Lauren Young has already had an incredible dancing career, regularly appearing on stage and screen. Between February and May, Lauren competed in the Asian Grand Prix International Ballet Competition (AGP). The AGP International Ballet Competition is an annual...

26 May The Sound of Music

Posted at 15:24h in Co-Curricular, Community, General, Music, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School

The Sound of Music graced the stage of the Packer Theatre for five shows in May, bringing this much-loved family musical to thousands of audience members. Our cast of girls was a stellar line-up of talent, with boys from Cranbrook, Newington and Sydney Grammar also joining...

12 Apr Other Rooms

Posted at 16:46h in Boarding, Community, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School

Year 11 Drama students have been hard at work collaborating, creating and acting in a self-devised work with guest director Mr Anthony Skuse and playwright Mr Julian Larnach. Other Rooms references Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, the spirit of which ran right through the...