WOODFORD COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, PROUDLY PRESENTS, HOUSE DRAMA!

ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT DRAMA? We certainly know that these girls are. Forget Hollywood, it’s all happening in our own local postcode of IG8, Woodford Green!

A tradition met by many girls each year throughout the course of November, is to host 4 fabulous plays, constructed, written and performed by solely the girls, without any aid from the teachers, all in the hope of winning the competition and award of best performance!

The housing system of WCHS allocates each girl within the 120 students per year group into a house for which she will stay in for the next 5/7 years upon entrance to the school in Year 7. These include Highams, Repton, Newton and Warner, each of significant resemblance to the school.

An elected House Captain and Deputy House girl from Year 13 for each house, take it into their stride to produce a drama, held within a half an hour time frame on the night. The play is executed to perfection, and the girls painstakingly capture each precious moment of the play within the short time frame.

The lead up to the night is stressful, and is certainly not free of tears, competition and teenage tantrums!

In 2011, Higham’s House reinacted ‘Alice in Wonderland’.

There was no limit to the amount of face paint used, and the bright bold colours were sure to bring back childhood nostalgia when everyone met with their favourite characters of the dainty Alice, utterly Mad Hatter, and the charming but sly Cheshire Cat!

Although Highams put up quite a feat, they were only met with the award of Best Costumes, and sadly, lost out to the overall best performance by Warner House; who put on a very REAL very SCARY version of Sweeney Todd.
Clad with blood bags, minus the real razor blades and sadly Johnny Depp too, the chilling and frightening chorus sent shivers down ones spine as ‘The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ could be heard from miles away, echoed from WCHS’s school stage!

Isabelle Mooney, now Year 13; as featured in the left of the picture, has been elected as House Head of Warner for this forthcoming house drama.
Will she be able to keep up the winning streak for Warner House?

In response she replied, ''I think anything is possible this year! It’s been hard to delegate tasks as everyone is so busy, but the beauty of house drama is that it all comes together perfectly on the night. Providing there’s excitement amongst the house, Warner this year, is feeling very competitive because of last year’s win, but we will see!’’