Senior Creative Drama – A class filled with improvisation, role play, theatre games and creative thinking to inspire our students to develop characters, tell stories and explore their world using acting and performance techniques. Every week the students work using drama exercises and a variety of stimuli to create unique situations and scenes. Being part of a happy and productive class atmosphere, enables the Senior students to develop self-expression, imagination, self-confidence and vocabulary as well as give voice to a complex range of emotions. The Seniors Creative Drama includes dialect work, audition skills, characterisation, and script work.
At Senior level their improvisations become more structured and their characters more clearly defined. They explore status and conflict, and experiment with more serious themes. They are challenged to look at their surroundings and to use their experiences in their performances. Senior Creative Drama students are also introduced to script work, radio drama, accents and performance. There is also the opportunity to perform in the Group Mime and Improvisation sections of the Speech & Drama Teachers of Ireland Festival.
THE ITW ORIGINAL SHORT PLAY COMPETITION: Each year we hold our own Original Short Play Competition for our Inters, Seniors and Young Adults. They write their own original short play and work together to produce it while taking on the roles of director, writer, prop master and actor. We have theatre professionals come in to judge the heats and finals and the winners names get engraved on our perpetual trophy. There are also awards for Best Actor, Best Writer, Best Director and a variety of other awards given out on the day. It is a great opportunity for the students to discover and develop their writing and directing skills and also to demonstrate their ability to work as part of a team.
What to wear: Our Senior students are expected to dress appropriately for movement and performance. The industry standard is blacks for rehearsals and so we adopt that idea in ITW. ITW t-shirts, leggings and sweatshirts can be ordered from the ITW SHOP online and will be delivered to ITW Studios for collection at class. Long hair should be tied up in a ponytail and footwear must have non marking soles.
