Drama News

On Thursday June 14th the 35 Drama GCSE Students in the LVth crossed the road to the Prep School in…
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Squeezed in the midst of exams, the Junior Play is annually charged with lifting everyone’s spirits and Nikki Lockwood’s exceptional…
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Each year a number of Cranleigh students audition for a place with the prestigious National Youth Theatre (NYT). All auditionees…
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The eponymous infant looms large in the Cherry Tree’s latest production, though the child never makes it on-stage. Instead, Cranleigh…
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There is only one place to start this review: with Bialystock and Bloom. As with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder…
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The demon headmaster has not graced the television sets of the nation for a number of years, however from the…
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North House brought a light cheer to the cold evenings before Long Leave (7th-9th February) with ‘The Happiest Days of…
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The hubbub of the audience slowly receded to reveal the soft melodies of Ben Cox and Oscar Reeve whose mellow…
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On Tuesday 24th January the LVth, accompanied by JLC, NIL, IMA and LJB, travelled to the Lyric Hammersmith theatre to…
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The LVIth have to prepare a piece of theatre in the style of a chosen practitioner for their A-Level Coursework,…
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You might have seen it done in another theatre. You might have studied it, just read it, or seen a…
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Cranleigh has some pedigree in producing playwrights, with OCs Al Smith and Patrick Marber still active. It is a new…
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The first play in the East House double-bill was ‘Trammel’ (2009) by Michael Lesslie, a hard-hitting play about the public…
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Cranleigh School can boast at least two living professional playwrights among its former pupils: Al Smith and Patrick Marber.  But…
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There has always been room for truly serious drama at Cranleigh and it doesn’t get more serious than ‘Ghosts’. It…
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Trying to describe the effect his own unique brand of theatre had on its audience, the author of En Attendant…
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The Cubitt play in the VCT was a collection of comedy sketches ingeniously compiled, slightly touched-up (ooh, Matron!) and co-directed…
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The West Play ‘It’s Not You It’s Me’ took over the VCT for three nights, directed by Sophia Ambrose, Milly…
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Another play of Ionesco, ‘La Cantatrice Chauve’, can still be seen in its original production in Paris today at La…
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Chelsea, World War Two, a genteel boarding house run by three charming elderly sisters. Doilies and “old lace” were much…
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Tom Stoppard’s radio play “The dog it was that died” was given a fresh outing in the VCT this term,…
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Che morte piu dolche morire per amore? The audience for the first night of Martin Allison’s adaptation of Ford’s 1629…
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Jeeves and Wooster stand alone in the pantheon of England’s comic literary heroes. For generations of Wodehouse aficionados the amiable,…
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The Common Room Play, Terrence Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version’, was a rare opportunity for Cranleighans to witness first-hand the skills…
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It was an inspired concept of director Martin Allison to couple Dario Fo’s ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ with a…
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This term’s North House plays was a series of short sketches and they unveiled some hidden acting talent within the…
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The History Boys Alan Bennett’s play is an ambitious and interesting choice for a house play.  It asks some important…
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‘Teechers’ has now become something of a period piece: I rather suspect the actors I saw in Cranleigh’s last house…
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What a difference a play makes…in refreshing an audience during examination season. From the opening song (made a hit by…
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20 LVth Drama students were involved in a physical theatre storytelling workshop this week from acclaimed theatre company ‘Les Enfants…
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The Loveday House Play filled the VCT with raucous laughter, giving the audiences an experience to remember. The whole play…
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This year’s senior school production of Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” epitomised farcical comedy, providing its audience with an evening filled…
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This week the LVIth Drama students enjoyed a puppetry and physicality workshop from theatre company Les Enfants Terribles who last summer…
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Arthur Handscomb (North 4th form) has won a place in the  National Youth Music Theatre’s 2015 Company. Rehearsals for this…
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The Lent term School play, Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, runs for two more nights in the Speech Hall this week.…
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The Junior Play from 19th- 20th May (the first of two this summer) was the second Cranleigh production of Sharman MacDonald’s…
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One of the many good things about Cranleigh is the way that the community manages to maintain a sense of…
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LVIth Drama students visited the National Theatre Studio this week to take part in a workshop introducing them to Commedia dell’arte. Commedia…
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Cranleigh’s Speech Hall has been splendidly transformed into a world of fantasy and dreams for this week’s ground-breaking immersive-theatre production…
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Not for over five years has a student-written production graced the stage of the VCT, but it made an impressive return.…
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The Loveday House play, as the name suggests, was a compilation of sketch shows from famous television sketches such as…
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The first of two Junior Plays to be staged in the VCT this term – ‘Treasure Island’ – was not only…
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Miss Seville and Miss Leach (with the able assistance of Adam Forrester) embarked on a brave and audacious effort in…
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During last summer term IVth form Drama students worked towards their Bronze Level Arts Award, a new initiative delivered by the…
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This year’s North House play – with members of West – was a well-produced and brilliantly acted staging of Max…
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The East House Play – with members of South – filled the VCT with raucous laughter, giving the audience an…
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‘A Flea in Her Ear’ follows Raymonde Chandebise, deftly portrayed with verve and energy by PJ Cunningham, who begins to…
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