The Drama Department at Runnymede Collegiate offers students multiple opportunities to learn about and practice their dramatic talents. Dramatic forms are used to allow students to explore self-expression through theatre arts. Self-expression is realized beginning with building trust through group exercises and moving through theatrical forms as well as practicing basic dramatic principles culminating in a self-realized work on stage in front of their peers and or the school community at large.

Yearly school drama productions and weekly rehearsals for the Improv Club are run through-out the school year. Students are encouraged to start up student run clubs that, in the past, have been well supported by the school be it student-run productions to script- writing groups as well as any other dramatic form that an inspired drama student finds an interest in.

ADA2O Dramatic Arts, Grade 10

This course requires students to actively explore dramatic forms and techniques, using their own ideas and concerns as well as sources selected from a wide range of authors, genres, and cultures. Student learning will include identifying and using the principles of space, time, voice, and movement in creating, sustaining, and communicating authentic roles within a drama. Students will assume responsibility for decisions made in the creation and presentation of the drama, and will analyze and reflect on the experience.

ADA3M Dramatic Arts, Grade 11, University/College Preparation

This course requires students to collaborate, create and perform dramatic presentations that deal with a variety of issues from the past and present. Students will analyze, interpret, and perform works of drama from various cultures, including Western plays from around 1900. Students will also complete research on different acting styles and conventions for their presentations, create original works, and analyze the functions of playwright, director, actor, technician, and audience. Prerequisite: Dramatic Arts, Grade 9 or 10, Open

ADA4M1 Dramatic Arts, Grade 12, University/College Preparation

This student-centred, activity based Senior Division course continues to build student self-esteem while fostering leadership, creative and critical thinking, and communication skills. Students explore and reflect upon the values of multicultural Canada. Various drama forms and strategies are linked with small and large group collaborative learning strategies and independent study. Evaluation is based on course objectives, process work, term assignments, self and peer evaluation and student-teacher conferences. Recommended Preparation: One introductory drama course

Regular Performances include

Arts Night: Twice yearly. Grade 10 Drama Class, Improv Club, Dance Club

Yearly Drama Production

Upcoming Productions include: Sure Thing, Phillip Glass buys a Loaf of Bread, The Good Woman of Setzuan

Past Productions include: The Brute, The Mousetrap, Lord What Fools, The Marriage Proposal

Theatre Ontario

Not Monkey (Canadian Improv Games)