Drama
Drama gives children the opportunity to explore and the freedom to imagine. Drama at LCS is about producing a learning environment where pupils can explore the world and their relationship to it, develop their self-awareness and understand others through fictional contexts. We use drama to help pupils develop on a social, moral, linguistic and creative level. The majority of this work is carried out in lessons where drama is used as a learning medium and the work is part of an ongoing experience, not intended for public display. However, some of the work involves developing stagecraft skills so that dramatic productions can be polished, rehearsed and presented to a larger, formal audience using school facilities and professional venues.
Recent awards
2023 National Drama Competition
Best Senior Drama
Best Individual Senior Performance
2024 National Drama Competition
Best Senior School Production
Senior Individual Performer
(Honourable Mention)
2023 National Competition, Globe Theatre, London
A group of Year 9 Drama students won a Special Award for their performance of Mother It's Already Winter, in Ukrainian and British Sign Language, as well as the
2024 Stephen Spender Trust Special Commendation Award for Translation
Curriculum drama
Curriculum drama, from early years to Year 9, gives children opportunities to discuss and deal with difficult issues and express their emotions in a supportive environment. It enables them to explore their own cultural values and those of others, past and present. It encourages them to think and act creatively, thus developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills that can be applied in all areas of learning. Through drama, children are encouraged to take responsible roles and make choices - to participate in and guide their own learning. Teachers can take a more open-ended approach, concentrating on the process of learning at least as much as, if not more than, the product.
Senior students can continue their study via GCSE Drama or A Level Drama & Theatre.
Drama & theatre opportunities
Pupils across a broad range of age, ability and experience are welcome to:
- Join Drama Clubs at lunchtimes and after school.
- Take part in our whole-school drama and musical productions at professional venues in and near Lichfield, including the Lichfield Garrick and the Rose Theatre, Rugeley. Students can undertake performance roles or provide support through set and prop design and creation, choreography, stage management, and lighting and sound technician roles. Examples of previous productions include Back to the 80s, Matilda, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, School of Rock, The Sound of Music, Aladdin, Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, Oliver!, Grease, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, We Will Rock You, Blood Brothers, Return to the Forbidden Planet and You, Me and Yesterday.
- Be involved in staging operas, such as Dido & Aeneas, Orpheus in the Underworld, La Belle Helene and Noye's Fludde.
- Take part in community-based productions, such as Zimbe!
- Take part in practitioner-led workshops with actors, directors and experts in sound, lighting and set design.
- Write theatre reviews for the School newsletter.
- Visit the theatre to see professional performances, often in conjunction with the English Department.
Back to the 80s
