Arts & Drama

Joanne Clark/Katie Beer — November 30, 2020

Arts evening was a lively, colourful performance celebration when NCEA students and the Shakespeare Festival teams shared their achievement of creating rich theatre. This was a wonderful exhibition of whanaungatanga, the relationships of shared experience and working together, in the kindness and respect shown by students backstage, onstage and in the audience as they coped with technical issues, illness and nervousness. Admirable resilience was shown as “the show must go on”. Read More

Joanne Clark — November 30, 2020

Two enthusiastic teams led by directors Amy Woermann and Molly Noven set out to create scenes for the University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival expecting to perform at the end of Term one. Thankfully the festival organisers, facing the uncertainty of covid 19 set up an on-line competition. Directors attended meetings, planning how to keep the energy going online and adapt their pieces for the camera. Read More