Drama & Music extra curricular
St Peter’s prides itself on providing all students with the opportunity to see a play every year and to be involved in school productions. Sometimes we go out to see plays and musicals but we also have companies in, especially for GCSE students.
Previous Productions
An astonishing cast of over 150, along with a terrific band, lighting, sound and backstage crew crafted a wonderful show that will live long in the memory.
As its heart it’s a show full of fun, with moments of tentative teenage tenderness as the central characters learn about themselves. We journey with these characters through some of the pitfalls and joys of love and the importance of being authentic to oneself.
There was singing, dancing often with obligatory pom-poms and always with plenty of focus and energy. Humorous characters played the script for lots of laughs. Basketball skills revealed great control – not easy in live theatre. The band added joy throughout, and the set, costumes, sound and lighting all added to the professionalism for these young performers.
The four sell-out performances were thoroughly enjoyed by an appreciative audience.
This will take place in July 2025 and The Cygnet Theatre.
This is an all-male cast of 15 students from years 8 to 10. Rehearsals have started very successfully. More information will follow early next year.
This was our biggest cast so far. Over 160 students performed in this very ambitious show. They were supported by students on lights, sound, cameras and backstage. Due to the community style of the show every member of the cast had a named part and lines.
This musical summarises and takes a satirical view on the events of the First World War using popular songs of the time. The actors all portray all those involved in the war from those in authority, the men and the front and the women waiting at home.
All the characters are dressed as sad end of the pier clowns to juxtapose against the grim reality of war. Joan Littlewood wanted to show the irrationality and absurdity of War.
This was a very ambitious undertaking as we knew this would be very technical show. The large cast were very dedicated and the actors playing the main characters sung their hearts out.
All the students were amazing, as were the lights. The audience joined in all the songs and clapped along and everyone had a brilliant time.
The production took place at The Cygnet Theatre. The cast were from year 10 and year 8.
The Kindertransport was a humanitarian rescue mission that took place in September 1939. 10,000 children, mostly Jewish, were taken from their homes and families on Nazi-occupied territories to Great Britain. The play focuses on a Jewish child pulled from her family in Germany and sent to live in England during the war.
The play uses the Ratcatcher story as the villain of the story. Eva’s mother, Helga, reads her the story about him leading the children of Hamlyn off a cliff to their deaths to punish the villagers for taking their blessings for granted.
This story has a big impact on young Eva, who seems to interpret her relocation to England as a punishment for her ingratitude.
The play is written and staged so that we see young Eva and also the older Eva, now Evelyn, in flashbacks until time passes enough for them to be almost together in time.
The cast of 6 performed to a full house at The Cygnet brilliantly getting a standing ovation.
They also successfully completed Silver Arts Award which gained them an extra GCSE.
This was our first production since covid, and students were very keen to get involved. We had a cast of 140 plus tech crew which was our biggest cast ever.
We performed to 300 hundred people over 4 nights plus a performance for all of year 7.
Our big production this year was Bugsy Malone. Over 80 students were involved either on stage or backstage to make this an amazing production. Watch this space to see what we are doing next!
A group of students, mostly year 9, put on their own production of this play at the Cygnet Theatre. It has a very important message and the audience were very moved by the plight of the characters. It was great to show all their hard work in a professional theatre.
Fugee: Slang for refugee
Fugeed: Something that has been lived in, soiled, stained, or damaged.
Kojo is 14 but no one believes him; he's just one of the unaccompanied minors arriving in London, abandoned on the streets of the UK. Ara's from Baghdad and still hears the bombs at night. Cheung can do back flips and is from village in China that is more than a thousand years old. Orphans in London, they are the only family they have now. Together they tell Kojo's story: a story of lost childhood, tall trees and a murder in motion; a murder by a child that everyone says is a man.
In 2018 we put on The Adams Family as our whole school production.
