TheatreLink: Using Technology in the Arts

Yesterday the Grade 11 drama students completed the TheatreLink playwriting programme. They performed a play written by students from the Robert Morgan Educational Centre in Florida via video conferencing. After a discussion facilitated by The Manthattan Theatre Club, Ridley students watched the play that they wrote performed by students from Oregon. TheatreLink is an international web-based playwriting programme in its second year at Ridley. There are fourteen schools involved in the programme and it is sponsored by The Manhattan Theatre Club.

The Ridley performance was very well received by the students from Florida and their teacher had this to say,"My students were especially moved by the intensity of the actors' perfomances and the way each character was portrayed exactly as they imagined. Your sets were, in the words of my students, "awesome." You truly honored us with your performance." Watch the video below to see a portion of the performance: