Midlands Lower Primary performing a Mime to Music

This week our 5-8 yr olds performed a Mime to Music called The Garden Gnomes. They really enjoyed using their bodies and faces to tell the story!

Congratulations to our Helen O Grady trophy winners!

After a wonderful parent day students were awarded their certificates of merit and achievement. Students who have completed 100 lessons were awarded trophies! 

Star College Grade 3's busy with their snippet

The grade 3's at Star College preparing their snippets to show the class!

Weekly Drama classes at Star College Pretoria

The grade 2 and 3 students at Star College look forward to Tuesday mornings! That is when the lovely Larisa comes to teach them drama as part of their curriculum!

Lyttelton Upper Primary learning new acting techniques

Our 9-12 age group at our Lyttelton studio acted out a whole group improvisation called Joe's All Night Cafe! We concentrated on our ad lib techniques and of course being 'dressed the character' really helped set the scene !

Lyttelton Lower Primary And the Super Snowman

Thank you to all our lower primary super stars for dressing up for today's play called the Super Snowman - you all looked very cute and cozy!!

Trophy Time!

Today we had our Parent Presentation at Beaulieu Prep - wow - The students were AMAZING! At the end of the presentation students were awarded certificates and trophies! Thank you to everyone for a wonderful morning! 

Erasmia Lower Primary Enjoying their Drama lesson!

Our lovely teacher Lauren taught the students from our Erasmia studio a great play called The Super Snowman! They enjoyed dressing up with beanies scarves and gloves! 

Midlands Composite class all dressed up

Our Midlands Composite class performed a whole group improvisation this week. They dressed up as different characters which really helped make their characters come alive! Well done!!

THE SUPER SNOWMAN!!

Our wonderful Midlands Lower primary class in the middle of their play calledThe  Super Snowman!

Week 2 of our third term

So far week 2 of our new term has been simply wonderful! 

Students from our Lower primary have come dressed up in all their winter woollies and are loving their play The Super Snowman! 

The Upper Primary pulled out all the stops as they dressed up as waitresses, bikers and truckers for their play Joe's All Night Cafe! This play only had guidelines and the students themselves had to come up with the dialogue and with the help of their teachers the story took shape!

HELEN O' GRADY DRAMA CLASSES FOR TERM 3 STARTS JULY 15

We hope you have all had a wonderful holiday and are ready for TERM 3!

We are looking forward to seeing all our students back for another term filled with DRAMA!

We would like to welcome our new students who are joining our Academy for the first time - we are sure you are going to have a great time!

Classes start  Monday 15 July in Faerie Glen and Lindo Park
                      Tuesday 16 July in Brooklyn
                      Wednesday 17 July in Annlin and Midlands
                       Thursday 18 July in Irene and Erasmia
                       Friday 19 July in Wierda Park and Sagewood
                       Saturday 20 July in Lyttelton

Stage Combat Workshop

The roll....

Irene Primary students performances were spectacular

It was a cold Thursday evening but still the Drama students at our Irene Primary studio were well supported by friends and family! The Lower Primary had so much confidence as they demonstrated their speech exercises and performed poems, a mime to music and an improvisation called Storybook Adventure!
Many of our Upper Primary have been with Helen O Grady Drama Academy for many years and it showed in their wonderful performances!

Mime and Stage Combat Workshop underway with Mime expert Henco Jacobs

Students from all different walks of life have gathered at Brooklyn Greek Church for a specialized Mime and Stage combat workshop

Holiday Workshop 2-4 July 2013

Exciting Mime and Stage Combat Holiday Workshop starting tomorrow 2 July at our Brooklyn studio in Pretoria East. We still have a few spots open...give us a call 0829091630 if you are interested!

Amazing Annlin Parent Day

The Amazing Annlin Youth Theatre took charge and presented a wonderful parent day! Students from age 5-18 performed many different items to showcase the Helen O' Grady Drama Academy curriculum. The afternoon was filled with enthusiasm and laughter as the students entertained their parents and friends with mini scripts, monologues, plays, verbal dynamics and let's not forget the scary bats from our mine to music!!