Year 10 Enron Workshop & Trip

Year 10 and Sixth Form drama students were fortunate enough to see 'Enron' and have the associate director of 'Enron' deliver a special Workshop here at FHS, all in the same week.   The Workshop showed the girls how the cast had learnt how to re-create the atmosphere of the frenetic trading floor including learning how to hand signal!  

Here are some comments from the girls about the production:

‘visual masterpiece'
 
‘savage comedy'

‘a serious topic made comic by the witty script'

‘conveyed complex ideas in an entertaining and accessible manner'

‘about a very disturbing real event I would never have known about'

‘highlighted the frightening consequences of greed'

‘a production which portrayed a real event as experimental fantasy'

‘it opened my eyes to the enormity of the results of individual action'

‘it demonstated the true value of money and the way in which money can blind us'

Followed by a description of the workshop:

'In the same week we were very fortunate in having the associate director of ‘Enron' deliver a workshop at our school. We had been so impressed with the way the actors had reproduced a stock market trading floor and she taught us how to do this. We learnt how to signal with our hands in the same way we had seen the actors on stage communicate. We created a short scene set on the trading floor in much the same way as it had been created in the rehearsals for the real production. It was a interesting to experience how the play was built and be able to do the same exercises the cast had done. The workshop impressed upon us the amount of work and commitment involved in putting on a play as well as the way a play expands and broadens as it develops.'

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