Con una presentación que nada tiene que envidiar a grandes escenarios se despidieron los alumnos y alumnas de 12th Grades que durante estos dos últimos años fueron parte del electivo del Drama del colegio.
Según explica Miss Mónica Zepeda, ha sido un trabajo desarrollado durante todo el año con mucho entusiasmo y compromiso: “La verdad es que el teatro en TISLS ha estado siempre presente en el programa de Language Arts y siempre habíamos querido tener un electivo de drama, el cual se compuso de 10 alumnos que trabajaron desde principio de año una vez a la semana”.
“Es muy bonito el proceso que se hace y esta es la culminación donde ellos mostraron su trabajo a sus compañeros y a sus padres presentando un compendio de todas las lecturas que han hecho en Language Arts, en el género de tragedias principalmente, y que ellos mismos han ido relacionando, realizando cada uno más de un personaje”.
Los alumnos recrearon cuatro obras que les correspondió leer en los distintos cursos de High School en la asignatura de Language Arts, estos son: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, The Tragedy of Julius Cesar y The Tragedy of Macbeth, todas obras de William Shakespeare; además de The Crucible de Arthur Miller.
Por su parte Miss Yolanda Mai, coordinadora de High School de TISLS señaló que “esto se origina porque en Language Arts en este colegio se busca desarrollar no sólo las habilidades lingüísticas, manejo del idioma oral como el inglés, sino que también busca que ese idioma y ese lenguaje se expresen a través de otras manifestaciones y el teatro es una de ellas”.
Drama Elective Course of 12th Grade’s spectacular farewell theater presentation
The Drama Elective for 12 grades closed the first cycle of two-year Drama Elective courses and their journey through TISLS with an outstanding presentation of their play L.A. Rewind, compilation of scenes from different tragedies. The level of the presentation made evident the English proficiency of each student and the highly developed ability to communicate, represent and express through the performance of a role on stage.
According to Miss Mónica Zepeda, this compilation and final presentation has been the work of The Shakepeas Company along the year. “Theater and drama have always been present in TISLS through its program for the Language Arts class. We had always wanted to have an elective course in drama, which in this case was composed by ten students who worked on this project once in the week during the whole year.”
“It is a beautiful process of building a theater company, gaining trust as a team, and finally presenting. This is the culmination of their year’s work, and they want to share it with their classmates and parents, presenting their play L.A Rewind, a compilation of scenes of the plays the whole Class 2022 has read along their years in High School in the class of Language Arts. They are four pieces of tragedies, which they have connected and for which each actor performs more than one character.”
Miss Yolanda Mai, High School Coordinator added: “This originates in the fact that the Language Arts program in our school aims at developing not only linguistic abilities, oral English proficiency, but it also aims for that language to be expressed through other manifestations and theater is one of them.»
