Drama in the school — some thoughts after hearing Mr Patrick Yeoh

Abstract

Mr Patrick Yeoh was pretty thorough in his talk on drama in schools, organised recently by SELTA. He dealt with the choice of plays, the aims of drama in general, the people involved in a play, props to be used, the do’s and don’ts of stage behaviour, how auditions should be conducted, how rehearsals should be run, what to do during the various sessions and so on. The play that climaxed his talk proved that his ideas were “workable”: it was enjoyable for the audience and the students seemed to have enjoyed their parts: a fair number of students were involved and even though the dialogue sounded rather stilted in the mouths of the students the play went without a hitch — and it was all done in one week!