All the world’s a stage for
Saint George’s drama students
Saint George’s students perform – brilliantly. Our state-of-the-art Founders Theater echoes to applause nearly every month for a different student production. There are rousing musicals (Bye Bye Birdie, Nunsense!), riotous comedies (Noises Off, You Can’t Take It With You), and enduring classics (The Rivals) that bring out the best in our actors. The fifth graders stage musicals such as H.M.S. Pinafore and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory each year.
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Middle School students also put on their own productions, including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Once Upon This Island, and The Wiz. Shakespeare’s classic play Midsummer Night’s Dream is performed by Middle Schoolers in a different setting each year – they’ve played it as 1950s bobby sox girls in love and cowboys speaking Elizabethan English in the Old West.
Students experience a wide range of dramatic literature. Saint George’s was the first high school in the area to present The Laramie Project, a thought-provoking look at the reactions of a small town’s residents to a high-profile hate crime. This challenging production was at the center of a school-wide Focus on Tolerance Week, opening the way for students and teachers to talk about one of the school’s key values – respect for other’s feelings and beliefs. It was a moving example of bringing the Saint George’s community together in ways that only the arts at an independent school can do.
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