It’s not every day that you see mime actors dressed in black, a dramatic monologue, a hallway scene of typical high school stereotypes and an in-assembly experience of a real drama workshop altogether. It is kind of ironic how we defined our theme, rather than our theme defining or leading us – work in progress. We felt that is what drama is all about – practicing and striving hard to achieve perfection, knowing that you won’t ever reach that level. This assembly perfectly showcased that even with limited practice and in a restricted time, there’s a lot to give to the audience and put across a million things that people seem to overlook in their daily lives. The highlight of the assembly was conducting 5 different workshops, where the drama club members took the role of instructors and did various trust building, movement and mime activities with a group of thirty people each. Towards the end of the assembly, we talked about what drama means to us, and this is a small excerpt from my speech:"Acting isn't something you do, instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but have unconscious results." Drama is something like that to me. It's as natural as breathing and as important as any other subject in my life. It's a hobby, its a passion, it's an obsession and it is one form of my escapism - a mental and emotional diversion from the banal aspects of daily life.Sameera Khurana
Form 11
