Welcome to Drama!
What can drama offer me?
You get to be on stage! If you have never been on stage, you get to try it in a fun and safe environment.
You work on planned improv and scenes!
You get to learn mime and movement!
You get to plan and rehearse performances!
You get to express yourself!
If you are really shy, you learn how to be comfortable in front of others.
If you have trouble doing presentations in other subjects, learn how to be relaxed & confident.
Great for business kids or math/science kids to learn how to think on your feet in class and do presentations.
If your parents tell you that you over acting at home, or you are the class clown, or you are shy or never talk in class, drama can be a great way to learn to act, be less afraid in public, be better on stage… and with others, be more comfortable at school.
Drama Club: Suspension Productions
November: Arthur B Toast Festival of student directed One-Act plays
- Matinees for KCSS students and two evening performances
- 16 to 21+ one-act plays, mostly contemporary plays chosen and directed by students and often written by students
- Actors from grades 9 – 12
- 80-100 students involved
- Auditions in September
- Students who want to learn how to act on stage can get involved in their grade 9 year and learn the ropes.
- Students who wish to direct are involved in all aspects of their play’s production.
May: School Play
- Two evening performances
- Matinees for grade 7 & 8 students and KCSS students
- Double casts mean more students are involved
- Most actors are from grades 10 – 12 so they have experience with Toast before being involved with the play - a longer commitment, but some grade 9s are involved
- 35 to 55 students involved
- Casting is done from auditions in September and Toast
Stage Crew:
- Sign up in September or drop by room 14 to say you are interested
- anyone can get involved by just signing up
- We have a stage crew training day to teach you what you need to know
- learning and running tech – lighting and sound; learning and running stage set up and set changes; prop creation and management and much more
Behind the Scenes:
We need people for other jobs during the year near to performance dates. Just drop in to room 14 to sign up
- Costume
- Make-up
- Publicity
- Painting scenery
- Set design
- Much more
Drama Course Offerings
- For those who live for the spotlight and for those who try to avoid it.
- On your feet doing things every day!
- Learn how to move, how to use your voice, how to develop an interesting character, how to perform a monologue, how to work with a partner to perform a great scene,
- Have fun and learn how to be great on stage through small group work in a safe and supportive environment
- A look at the basics to bring new drama students up to speed and refresh the memories of students who have taken grade 9 drama
- A lot of time acting but also more effort to understand the process, the scene and the characters. Fine tuning drama skills from head to toe: facial expression, use of voice, gestures, movement and focus
- Storytelling, scenes, monologues, improv Olympics, what a stage manager does and much more!
- Lots of performance and working on acting skills. Examining theatre styles and how they relate to acting today. Continuing to use understanding the script and character to create dynamic stage performances
- Outside performance – Nov. 11th or for grade 8s or 9s
- Creation of a one-act play which can be part of the next Toast
- Lots of performance and working on acting skills
- Study and performance of a full Canadian play from the actor’s point of view, not as a piece of literature. A look at the many jobs available in theatre and what makes a production run smoothly
- Outside performance – for grade 11/12 and/or assembly
- Development of a short one-person show