WE are committed to inspiring, education and developing students’ performance and reflective skills.

We will always challenge students to set targets that go above and beyond their own perception of what they may be able to achieve.

We will always champion students who make exceptional progress and always nurture talent wherever we see it, however small it may be.

Our Staff

Mr Kavanagh – Director of Drama & Dance
Mrs Straw – Music & Drama Assistant
Mr Kramer – Teacher of Music (Musical Director for School Productions)
Year 13 Drama Prefect

Core Values – 5 Cs

Creation: using our imagination, realising ideas, building meaningful work from scratch.
Connection: understanding the work, ourselves, and the audience more.
Communication: always striving to transfer our work to others as effectively as possible.
Collaboration: working with others. Sharing, listening, participating.
Challenge: always ambitious and bold, expecting more from ourselves.

Drama & Dance Spaces

Drama Suite (F23) – Foundation Building. Classroom space.
Lecture Theatre – Foundation Building. Large dance space.
John Jenkin’s Hall – Main Building. Proscenium arch theatre space.

Archive of Past Productions

Titles with links have pages with further information, such as programmes and photos. Those with an asterisk (1987 onwards) also have access to full-length videos of the production. Where videos are password protected, please use the first six letters of the production name plus the production date (MMYYYY).

CAMBERWELL (1950 – 1974)
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Oscar Wilde (1950)
ARMS AND THE MAN George Bernard Shaw (1951)
MACBETH William Shakespeare (Mar 1952)
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING William Shakespeare (1953)
THE ASCENT OF F6 W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood (1954)
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR Nikolai Gogol (1955)
THE MISANTHROPE Molière (1956)
THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN Sean O’Casey (1957)
THE ALCHEMIST Ben Jonson (1958)
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL T. S. Eliot (1959)
OEDIPUS REX Sophocles (1959)
TWELFTH NIGHT William Shakespeare (1961)
BILLY BUDD Herman Melville (1961)
KING HENRY IV Part I William Shakespeare (1962)
THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL Willis Hall (1963)
THE BACCHAE Euripides (1963)
THE CRUCIBLE Arthur Miller (Dec. 1963)
THE QUARE FELLOW Brendan Behan (1964)
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL T. S. Eliot (1965)
THE DUMB WAITER Harold Pinter / WAITING FOR GODOT Samuel Becket (1965)
THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS Dylan Thomas (1966)
THE MIKADO W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (1968)
THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH Edward Bond (1969)
A SUBJECT OF SCANDAL AND CONCERN John Osborne (1970)
THE POLTERGEIST Frank Harvey (1971)
ZIGGER ZAGGER Peter Terson (1972)
OFF WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Anon. (1973)
THE THWARTING OF BARON BOLLIGREW Robert Bolt (1974)
WALLINGTON (1975 – Present)
THE LIFE OF GALILEO Bertolt Brecht (Dec. 1975)
ANDROCLES AND THE LION Bernard Shaw (Mar. 1976)
SWEENEY TODD George Dibdin Pitt (Dec. 1976)
OLIVER! Lionel Bart (Mar. 1977)
BIRDS Aristophanes (Dec. 1977)
TWELFTH NIGHT William Shakespeare (Feb. 1979)
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Oscar Wilde (Dec. 1979)
ANTONIO’S REVENGE John Marston (Dec. 1980)
THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE Bernard Shaw (Dec. 1981)
ENTER A FREE MAN (Staff) Tom Stoppard (Jul. 1982)
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING Arnold Wesker (Dec. 1982)
THE GOLDEN MASQUE OF AGAMEMNON John Wiles (Feb. 1983)
TOAD OF TOAD HALL A. A. Milne (Jul. 1983)
THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN Peter Shaffer (Dec. 1983)
ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST (6th Form) Dario Fo (Mar. 1984)
THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND (Staff) Tom Stoppard (Jul. 1984)
BEYOND A JOKE (6th Form) Derek Benfield (Nov. 1984)
HUBERT AND THE FIREWORK Martin Knight (Dec. 1984)
AN EVENING OF ONE-ACT DRAMA (March 1985) comprising:
MEDEA Euripides, SMOKING IS BAD FOR YOU and A TRAGIC ROLE Anton Chekhov, OUT AT SEA Slavomir Mrozek
WHITE LIARS/BLACK COMEDY (Staff and Sixth Form) Peter Shaffer (Jul. 1985)
MY FAIR LADY (Sixth Form) Lerner & Lowe (May 1986)
THE SPORT OF MY MAD MOTHER Ann Jellicoe (Jul. 1986)
FROGS* Aristophanes (Mar. 1987)
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS* William Shakespeare (Dec. 1987)
THE THWARTING OF BARON BOLLIGREW Robert Bolt (Jul. 1988)
CINDERELLA* (Staff) John Morley Dec. 1988
THE INJUSTICE DONE TO TOU NGO*/AFTER MAGRITTE* (Sixth Form) Kuan Han Ch’ing / Tom Stoppard (Mar. 1989)
KING OEDIPUS* Sophocles Mar. 1990
DRACULA SPECTACULA!* Gardiner & Parr (Dec. 1990)
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM* William Shakespeare (Mar. 1992)
DOCTOR FAUSTUS* Christopher Marlowe (Dec. 1992)
CULTURE BEAT* Paul Gerrard (Mar. 1994)
HIAWATHA* Michael Bogdanov (Dec. 1994)
ALADDIN* (Staff) John Morley (Dec. 1995)
’TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE* (at the Secombe Theatre) John Ford (Feb. 1997)
GHETTO (at the Secombe Theatre) Joshua Sobol (Feb. 1998)
THE SEVEN-SIDED DICE* Phil Rean & Mike Smith (Jul. 1999)
MACBETH* William Shakespeare (Feb. 2000)
AMADEUS* Peter Shaffer (Dec. 2000)
THE NATIVITY* Tony Harrison (Dec. 2001)
THE BACCHAE OF EURIPIDES* Wole Soyinka (Dec. 2002)
DICK WHITTINGTON* (Staff) John Morley (Dec. 2003)
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT (Year 7) Andrew Lloyd Webber (Jul. 2004)
LORD OF THE FLIES* Nigel Williams (Dec. 2004)
TREASURE ISLAND* (Year 7) Stephen Kingsbury (Jul. 2005)
OLIVER!* Lionel Bart (Dec. 2005)
BUGSY MALONE* (Year 7) Alan Parker (Jul. 2006)
ENTER A FREE MAN* Tom Stoppard (Dec. 2006)
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS* (Year 7) Alan Bennett (Jul. 2007)
HAMLET* William Shakespeare (Dec. 2007)
GUYS AND DOLLS JR.* (Year 7) Frank Loesser (Jul. 2008)
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST* Oscar Wilde (Dec. 2008)
WE WILL ROCK YOU* (Year 7) Ben Elton & Queen (Jul. 2009)
SINBAD THE SAILOR* (Staff) John Morley (Dec. 2009)
HAMLET* (Year 8) & A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM* (Year 7) Shakespeare 4 Kidz (Mar. 2010)
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING* (Year 9) William Shakespeare (July 2010)
HIGH SOCIETY* Cole Porter (Dec. 2011)
TITUS ANDRONICUS* William Shakespeare (Feb. 2012)
LES MISÉRABLES* (Year 7/8) Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Jul. 2012)
THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III* Alan Bennett (Dec. 2012)
TWELFTH NIGHT William Shakespeare (Mar. 2013)
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF* (Year 7/8) Joseph Stein, Jerry Brock, Sheldon Harnick (Jul. 2013)
SWEENEY TODD The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Stephen Sondheim (February 2014)
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST* (Year 7/8) Howard Ashman and Tim Rice (Jul. 2014)
MACBETH William Shakespeare (Dec. 2014)
ANIMAL FARM (Year 7) George Orwell, Peter Hall (Jul. 2015)
KING LEAR* William Shakespeare (Feb. 2016)
OLIVER!* (Year 7/8) Lionel Bart (Jul. 2016)
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM* William Shakespeare (Feb. 2017)
THE WIZARD OF OZ* (Year 7/8) Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg and John Kane (July 2017)
ROMEO AND JULIET* William Shakespeare (Feb. 2018)
CATS* (Year 7/8/9) Andrew Lloyd Webber (Jul. 2018)
MY FAIR LADY Lerner & Lowe (Feb. 2019)
LORD OF THE FLIES* (Year 7/8/9) Nigel Williams (Jul. 2019)
THE CRUCIBLE* Arthur Miller (Feb. 2020)
THE SEAGULL Anton Chekhov (Feb. 2021)
FANTASTIC MR FOX (Junior Production) Roald Dahl and Sally Reid (Jul. 2021)
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Agatha Christie (Feb. 2022)
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT (Junior Production) Andrew Lloyd Webber (Jul. 2022)
ROAD* Jim Cartwright (Feb. 2023)
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING* Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert & Frank Loesser (Jul. 2023)

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