CREATIVITY IN PROCESS
Extended
Diploma in Music Year 1
The first year Diploma students will perform a range of popular music from the last thirty years. This concert features songs that students have learned in rehearsals since joining the course in September. The students have been responsible for forming and setting up bands as part of their coursework rehearsing and organising all aspects of the preparation process for this concert.
Tickets: £5 adults, £4 concessions, £3 students
Wednesday
3rd November at 7.30pm
HIGH
VOLTAGE
National
Diploma in Music Year 2
This
concert will showcase the songs and instrumental numbers that students have
rehearsed since September. The students have been responsible for forming and
setting up bands as part of their coursework rehearsing and organising all
aspects of the preparation process for this concert. The songs featured in the
concert will have your feet tapping from start to finish.
Tickets: £5 adults, £4 concessions, £3 students
Thursday
4th November at 7.30pm
VOICES
‘…a joyful children’s chorus, a nostalgic atonal serenade, a piece
of 100% Corelli (Made in the USSR) and, finally, my grandmother’s favourite
tango… I am sure all these themes go together very well…’ Alfred Schnittke
talking of his Concerto Grosso.
Musical forms evolve through centuries
and across cultures, showing great diversity. Yet, they seem to express a
fundamental unity. In this programme QMC A-Level Music students present a
kaleidoscope of music from different periods and genres.
Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th November at 7.30pm
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDEBy
Robert Louis Stevenson
QM Hall
Following
on from the success of Jack the Ripper last
year, the new first year students will integrate singing, dancing and acting to
bring to life this classic tale of gothic horror. Even though some scenes are designed to shock
the audience, this evening’s entertainment will appeal to the whole family.
Tickets: £5 full, £4 concessions,
£3 students
Wednesday 24th - Thursday 25th November at 7pm
QMC DANCE STEPS
QM Hall
AS, A
Level & BTEC Award dance students showcase pieces from professional works,
to devised pieces in styles ranging from Jazz to Contemporary and Street to
Ballet. Don’t miss this chance to see the exciting range of techniques taught
at QMC and to enjoy a lively and entertaining show.
Tickets: £5 full, £4 concessions,
£3 students
Wednesday 1st - Thursday
2nd December at 7.30pm
ROMEO AND JULIET
By
William Shakespeare
QM Hall
The
second year national diploma students perform Shakespeare’s most famous play as
part of their work of study on classical theatre. Following the success of Titus Andronicus and Troilus
and Cressida, Romeo and Juliet will be set in Stalinist Russia and will be
performed in the traverse. This
production will explore the carnivalesque comic subtext that sometimes becomes
overwhelmed by the classic love story. There will be original music composed
and performed live by Ali Willis and her music students. This production is especially appropriate for
any students who are studying Romeo and Juliet either at GCSE or AS/2 level.
Tickets: £5 full, £4 concessions,
£3 students
NEW WRITING IN PERFORMANCE
Following
the success of Rosemary Wisbey’s new play, Papa
Porcupine last year and Nick Dereza’s production of Dream of the Ice Maiden in 2008, the performing arts department
will again be presenting a new play in performance. At the time of the brochure going to press,
the final new play had not been chosen but details of this should appear on the
Central Studio website. The chosen play
will appeal to the whole family and will use music, dance and physical theatre. Tickets: £5 full, £4 concessions, £3 students
QMC CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Settle back and enjoy an evening’s
entertainment featuring popular carols, songs, dance, readings and play
extracts. A festive Christmas concert for all the family, performed by the
staff and students at QMC.
All profits will go to the
charity CRY-Cardiac Research in the Young
CAUCASIAN CHALK
CIRCLE
by Bertolt Brecht.
The second year National Certificate students present Brecht’s
play of ideas which satirises the judiciary and religious life. Written in the aftermath of the Second World
War, it asks what kind of regime should now be chosen to run a country. The play attacks societies’ inequality and
ridicules the powerful. Even though the
play is a moving drama, at its heart it is a satirical comedy. Set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, the
play takes its ideological cue from the prologue. After the Second World War,
two groups of peasants gather in a valley to argue over which group should
claim the valley as their own. Under the care of the State Reconstruction
Committee it is unanimously decided that the land should go to the group who
will put it to best use. In celebration of this triumph of diplomacy a singer
is brought forward as entertainment; the intertwining stories of the chalk
circle that are then told form the main part of the play.
Tickets: £5 full, £4 concessions,
£3 students
Wednesday 16th-Saturday
19th February at 7.30pm
QMC MUSICAL
QM Hall
Following
the success of Les Miserables, Hair, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Tommy and last
year Footloose, the performing arts
department will be presenting the annual musical in the hall. At the time of going to press, the performing
rights had not yet been secured and details will be available on the Central
Studio website nearer the time.
Tickets: £8 full, £6 concessions,
£5 children & students
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