GCSE Drama Examination Showcase – Pink Mist & Around the Word in 80 Days

A fantastic coda to the end of the Year 11 GCSE course was the work presented for their practical exam. Students staged extracts from Owen Shears’ verse drama, Pink Mist and Laura Eason’s adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days. Pink Mist illuminates the effects of the devastating conflict in Afghanistan and the human cost of modern warfare. Laura Eason’s wittily inventive adaptation of 80 Days taps into the rhythmic efficiency of the industrial age in its carousel depiction of a range of heightened comic caricatures. All four groups integrated a densely detailed language of athletic movement and physical theatre techniques as well as deft and nuanced characterisation.

Bravo and congratulations to this very talented cohort of Tom Adair, Max Hackleton, Adrià Mir Muntades, Sullivan Riches, Toby Bamert, Calvin Chen, Henry Findlay, Harri Kokkini, Joseph Monks Marley Amarteifio, Noah Darley, Luca Mercuri, Seb Sweeney, Solomon Adeyemi, Harry Blake, Oliver Stallard and Anton Zhelesko. All ensemble playing was of the highest dramatic order evidencing a maturity beyond their years with some highly impactful performance work complemented by a compelling LX design by Leo Michealides.