In 2010, a new initiative in the Creative Arts was born: Running with Scissors Theatre Company.
This company was formed to provide students with the opportunity to develop their skills as theatre workers in a professional environment at “Higher Ground” in the Adelaide CBD. Students fill roles in Performance, Administration, Stage Management and Technical Production. In its inaugural year, the company was formed by auditioning students from Years 9 to 11. Subsequently, Year 8 students audition to gain entry to the company. In 2010, the company performed, rorriMMirror and Miss Pettigrew’s Little Book on Etiquette for the Young Existentialist. In 2011, the second instalment of the saga Henrietta St, first performed in 2008, continued in Tinker’s Curse.
Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors is an out of hours Theatre Company run and supported by the Arts Learning Area at Adelaide High School.
Running with Scissors has two primary functions:
- To teach skills related to the craft of acting
- To develop new works of drama.
Running with Scissors is:
- Primarily an actors' company, but with positions for production support staff in Administration, Stage Management and Technical Production. It is devoted to teaching the skills in voice, movement and acting craft in a way and at a level which is not possible in the course of general classroom teaching.
- For those students who have a commitment to the Performing Arts that goes beyond simple interest,
and who have already demonstrated that fact both in, and outside the classroom.
- An ensemble, so group skills are as important as talent.
Running with Scissors is open to students from Year 9 to Year 11.
Running with Scissors students train twice a week from 3.30 – 5.30pm, Tuesday and Thursday at Higher Ground Inc., Light Square.
Running with Scissors is a shared enterprise with Higher Ground Inc., Light Square, Adelaide.
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