Although drama and theatre arts are not yet on the curriculum in the secondary school, drama is vibrant and alive. You can find it everywhere in our school.
Every year we stage a secondary school production, with students from Grades 6-12 taking part in every aspect of the show, from designing and painting the set, to creating the costumes to acting a role, large or small, because, ‘There are no small parts, only small actors.”
Recent productions have included The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldini (March 2004), My Fair Lady (June 2005), The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (March 2006), Sondheim’s Into the Woods (May 2007) and our current production to be performed in February 2008 is the J.B. Priestley play An Inspector Calls
As well as whole school productions, drama is an essential part of the work that goes on in the MYP and DP English courses. Students not only study plays, they also dramatise poetry, act out scenes, write their own adaptations and explore the relationships between characters in novels using the tools and techniques of drama, including role play and simulation. This is also true in humanities, science and Theory of Knowledge.
Assemblies often involve drama as well, whether it is Mr. Billing trying to persuade us that his bathroom scales are telling the truth, to the Strong Men blowing up hot water bottles and bending frying pans, or Grade 12 showing the whole school the meaning of the Middle Years Programme with freeze frames and choral speaking. Last year began with the whole Secondary School dramatizing each point of the Mission Statement, teachers included, to raise awareness and understanding of who we are and what we stand for.
AISJ is a member of The International Schools Theatre Association (ISTA) and has been since 2004. We have attended High School Festivals in Glasgow, Scotland (March 2005), Colombo, Sri Lanka (February 2006), Trieste in Italy (April 2007) and this year a small group of students will be going to Istanbul, Turkey (March 2008). In February 22nd –24th 2007 we also hosted a High School Festival on the theme of Totems and Taboos, attended by students from Schmidt College, Damascus Gate and AIS of Israel, as well as our own students.
Drama and theatre are powerful tools for learning, involving unique forms of expression that lift students out of their own world and invite them to inhabit the mind and consciousness of others. It is an outstanding art form that imbues everything we do at AISJ with its own special magic
Vicki Bonaccorso
Director of Drama
Although drama and theatre arts are not yet on the curriculum in the secondary school, drama is vibrant and alive. You can find it everywhere in our school.
Every year we stage a secondary school production, with students from Grades 6-12 taking part in every aspect of the show, from designing and painting the set, to creating the costumes to acting a role, large or small, because, ‘There are no small parts, only small actors.”
Recent productions have included The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldini (March 2004), My Fair Lady (June 2005), The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (March 2006), Sondheim’s Into the Woods (May 2007) and our current production to be performed in February 2008 is the J.B. Priestley play An Inspector Calls
As well as whole school productions, drama is an essential part of the work that goes on in the MYP and DP English courses. Students not only study plays, they also dramatise poetry, act out scenes, write their own adaptations and explore the relationships between characters in novels using the tools and techniques of drama, including role play and simulation. This is also true in humanities, science and Theory of Knowledge.
Assemblies often involve drama as well, whether it is Mr. Billing trying to persuade us that his bathroom scales are telling the truth, to the Strong Men blowing up hot water bottles and bending frying pans, or Grade 12 showing the whole school the meaning of the Middle Years Programme with freeze frames and choral speaking. Last year began with the whole Secondary School dramatizing each point of the Mission Statement, teachers included, to raise awareness and understanding of who we are and what we stand for.
AISJ is a member of The International Schools Theatre Association (ISTA) and has been since 2004. We have attended High School Festivals in Glasgow, Scotland (March 2005), Colombo, Sri Lanka (February 2006), Trieste in Italy (April 2007) and this year a small group of students will be going to Istanbul, Turkey (March 2008). In February 22nd –24th 2007 we also hosted a High School Festival on the theme of Totems and Taboos, attended by students from Schmidt College, Damascus Gate and AIS of Israel, as well as our own students.
Drama and theatre are powerful tools for learning, involving unique forms of expression that lift students out of their own world and invite them to inhabit the mind and consciousness of others. It is an outstanding art form that imbues everything we do at AISJ with its own special magic
Vicki Bonaccorso
Director of Drama