Fabulous House Drama Competition: TV’s Carrie Grant awards prizes
Sunday 2 February 2014
| Far from being a lightweight diversion from the serious business of exam preparation, the biennial Queenswood House Drama Competition is actually an awesome test of invaluable life skills. The challenge: to collaborate with your peers to script, cast, direct, design, costume, score, light and promote a theatrical production. Involve the entire House – but don’t overrun your twenty minute slot. |
The girls to whom this responsibility fell this year endured a frantic but unforgettable week of rehearsal, culminating in a performance in front of a packed audience in the Clarissa Farr Theatre on the afternoon of Sunday 2 February. Our adjudicators were Carrie Grant (The One Show, Comic Relief, Fame Academy, Carrie and David’s Pop Shop), who has worked with too many stars to mention, and her daughter Olivia (OQ), currently training as an actor at Guildhall.
Clapham North, with their ingeniously post-modern adaptation of a selection of ‘Grimm Tales’, were crowned winners.
The awards for best actress were allocated as follows:
- Molly Munyard – Clapham North – Grimm Tales
- Aoife Morgan Jones – Clapham South – The Woman in Black
- Georgia Dallas – Hartley – Snow White
- Eva and Grace Mee (joint) – Waller – Cinderella
The winning team
Carrie and Olivia were extremely impressed by the standard of production, and thanked Queenswood for making them feel welcome and valued.
Watch videos of the performances below. Photographs of each House’s production are available to view by following the links to our Flickr galleries.
Waller – Cinderella
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Hartley – Snow White
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Clapham North – Grimm Tales
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Clapham South – The Woman in Black