Hills Road Sixth Form College
Performing Arts
We are a dynamic department serving around 200 students.
We offer you...
- Two exciting and challenging A-level performance courses.
- A minimum of four staff-directed productions a year.
- The opportunity to write and stage your own work.
- Excellent facilities including a fully equipped 142-seat
theatre and brand new dance studios, technical and
rehearsal spaces.
- Dozens of opportunities to see and work alongside
professionals.
- A highly experienced teaching and technical team.
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A-level Courses
Whether you're taking Drama or Dance (or both), you'll find the teaching and the facilities stimulating and inspiring.
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You'll attend numerous shows in Cambridge, London and further afield.
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We also run a comprehensive series of professional workshops alongside your course to enhance your practical skills in subjects ranging from Auditioning to Zumba, via Directing, Puppetry and Singing.
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For further information, please follow the links to our main college website:
Drama
Dance
Facilities
Hills Road Performing Arts department is equipped with a 142-seat theatre fitted with high-quailty sound and lighting equipment. New in 2017 is the Performing Arts block featuring two bright studios spaces with sprung floors. We also have a dedicated technical area with scenery and costume workshops and extensive prop and wardrobe storage.
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For further information and to hire our facilities please follow these links:
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Theatre
Productions
Each term we stage at least one major production. This year we staged A Christmas Carol, Bronte and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Last year was The Producers, The Red Shoes and Twelfth Night. The students take all possible roles from acting, directing, designing, lighting, sound and all the backstage technical crew.
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We also encourage students to write and direct their own shows giving them full technical and financial support. Recent student productions have included Rent, Punk Rock, The Little Shop of Horrors and Lovesong.
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Each summer, graduating students form a troupe under the name Babolin Theatre. They intensively devise and rehearse a show which is taken to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a week in August. Reviews have been outstanding.
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We are also founding partners in the Fusion Theatre Festival, a day-long event hosted here and at the Cambridge Junction, celebrating the best of local schools and colleges theatre combined with workshops and professional performances.
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