Month: November 2020

If you’re still looking for a ticket to the final performance of this star-studded spectacular, dream on. All tickets are sold out. Friday night tickets are currently changing hands on the black market for bars of gold.

Here are some (more or less) genuine reviews from those lucky enough to catch a performance so far…

‘The best school production that I’ve ever seen in my teaching career.’

Heidi Dean

‘From the atmospheric sets to the expressive performances, A Midsummer Nights Dream was absolutely mesmerizing!’

Susan Brown

‘The best Shakespeare production, professional or otherwise, that I’ve ever seen.’

Michael Merrylees

‘Stellar! A triumph of interpretation.’

Katie Ham

‘The first time I‘ve enjoyed Shakespeare – and the first time I’ve stayed awake for an entire performance!’

Kieshokanth

‘It’s so fun. But my legs hurt.’

Calvin (Grade 6)

‘******* amazing!’

Anon

‘It was so good, I had to stop gaming to watch!’

Anonymous Grade 9 student

The Dream comes to an end at 7pm tonight!

The first night reviews are in! Get your ticket quickly as this show will be sold out following rave reviews from the world’s media!!

‘Truly the theatrical event of the season. Don’t miss it!’

New York Times

‘The silliest stuff that ever I heard!’

Washington Post

‘Better than another night in reading about Covid-19!’

Global Daily

‘I didn’t recognize my own city!’

Shanghai Time Out

‘Beautiful set and scenery! Great costumes! Great music! No noticeable missing lines!’

Amy Keus, Tony Award judges panel

‘Netflix win bidding rights to magical musical A Midsummer Night’s Dream!’

Variety

‘The Dream Band have never sounded better – coolest soundtrack of the year!’

Rolling Stone

‘I never understood Shakespeare until I saw this show. Now I’m reading Hamlet!’

Anonymous Grade 6 student

‘Brilliant in every way apart from a group of terrible actors called The Mechanicals, who interfered with the professionalism of the show and completely destroyed its artistic credibility. They should be arrested! Who let them in?’

Anonymous Grade 7 student who studied the play last year and should know better

‘A very good piece of work I assure you.’

The directors

December 5th

3.30 – 6.30 pm

20 students to help with various jobs at the Christmas Charity Festival.

You can sign up on Veracross from Thursday 1pm.

Possible learning outcomes

• Commitment and Perseverance
• Collaboration
• Ethics
• Challenge and New Skills
• Strength and Growth

Some lines cut from ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ due to their impromptu and offensive nature:

Bottom: Fool, thou hast forgot the hook to hold our curtain up!

So stand here to stop it crashing atop my noble head!

Snout: ^*&&^$$%Y$(*^*&%%!!!!! (Parental Guidance advised)

Flute: I’m so glad I don’t actually have a beard coming. ‘Twould undermine the necessary gravitas I am to bring to my role of Thisbe.

Starveling: I dare not go on, I am afeard of such a huge audience! They will laugh at me!

Miss Quince: It’s a comedy! That’s the whole point, stupid!

Snug: What do you mean, tone it down?

Bottom: Hey, Hippolyta baby – drop this Theseus dude and meet me after the show…

Yes, these are in-jokes. So be in, and buy your ticket now! Get one of the last tickets left for tonight’s show.

On sale from the cashier (cash only) OR in the Centre lobby, 7:30-8am, WITH WECHAT & ALIPAY!!! Friday sold out!! Get your tickets for Wednesday or Thursday while they last…!!!

21/22 Subject Choice Selections for the following grade levels are due tomorrow:

• Grade 9 into 10
• Grade 10 into 11

Please hand in your form to Ms Ham (D207b). Put your form in the basket on the desk, if Ms Ham isn’t in the office when you swing by.

Have a good day!

Are you in grade 12 and are short just one experience

for your CAS portfolio?

or are you in grade 9-11 and forgot to volunteer?

Well, you’re in luck. We have one last event before the holidays and we need 18 scorekeepers for Saturday Dec 12.

Shift 1 – 8.45 am – lunch

Shift 2 – lunch – 5pm

Times will be confirmed later this week. Sign ups will be on Veracross by the end of this week.

Possible learning outcome:

• Ethics because you will record the score fairly and not cheat
• Collaboration because you will need to work with the referees and the other score keeper
• Commitment and perseverance because you need to be focused on the game so you don’t miss any baskets or fouls.
• Challenge and new skill because you have never score kept before and do not know the rules
• etc

By popular request… The further adventures of Flora

Flora, due to her excessive common sense and precocious appreciation of Shakespeare, eventually became a teacher, and spent her life in the corner of the kitchen at parties rearranging fridge magnets into quotes from her favourite plays that were quiet and unnoticed cries for help. She lived alone with two cats called Lysander and Demetrius.

Follow her wise advice, and buy that ticket now!

On sale from the cashier (cash only) OR in the Centre lobby, 7:30-8am, WITH WECHAT & ALIPAY!!! Friday sold out!! Get your tickets for Wednesday or Thursday while they last…!!!

On Tuesday, our boys’ basketball team will play against a neighbouring school.

On Tuesday, we need 2 scorekeepers from 4.30 – 6pm.

Please sign up on Veracross after 1pm today.