Australian Country

Bonding with THE BARD

 A week may be a long time in politics but it felt like a nanosecond for a group of year 10 drama students from Loreto Normanhurst in Sydney. During a recent artist-in-residence program, the students worked with Bell Shakespeare’s arts educator Chris Tomkinson to study, explore and, at the conclusion of five action-packed days, perform an abridged version of Macbeth.

“Drama inherently encourages risk taking. Without the constraints of an assessment, the girls are able

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