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NUMBER ONE Festival for Speech and Drama thoroughly entertaining
and performed in many production of Adrian Mole.
examination productions.
Five members of Dunclug staff
Rebecca said that the award was
took to The Mac Theatre in
“a real honour which wouldn't September, with a bus of excited
have been possible without the
GCSE and A-Level students in tow.
support provided at Dunclug
The story follows troubled teen
College”.
Adrian as he navigates his way
NI’s Top Performing Arts Student through adolescence. Gloriously
The Drama department has done geeky Adrian faces his parents
it again – producing the best crumbling marriage, unrequited
result in Northern Ireland for love for Pandora and relentless
Performing Arts. To our delight, school bullies.
Rebecca Fowler achieved the The play was fast paced, energetic
highest mark for Performing Arts and featured skills music, dance
in the 2017 cohort as awarded by and mime. To see such theatre
the examining body CCEA. Her skills modelled made pupils’
success follows that of her Rebecca is currently studying ambitions tangible; they could
Dunclug predecessor, Emma Drama at Queens University, then set out their targets for the
Fleck, who received the same Belfast, but was delighted to year.
accolade in 2016. attend the Stormont award
Brusier is one of Northern
Rebecca is a keen actor, achieving ceremony for top achieving pupils Ireland’s leading production
an A for GCSE Performing Arts alongside Mrs Wilson, her class companies specialising physical
and an A* for her A-Level. During teacher Mrs Poole and her theatre. It’s work is always
her time in Dunclug, Rebecca parents. polished and pleasurable; our
performed as beauty school pupils saw consummate industry
dropout Frenchy in the school professionals at work.
THE SECRET DIARY OF
musical ‘GREASE!’, came second With the theatre buzz ignited, the
place for her monologue from ‘A ADRIAN MOLE, AGED 13 3/4
Drama Department also
Doll’s House’ at the Ballymena Senior School see Mole at The collaborated with the A level
Mac. Travel and Tourism class to attend
Pupil engagement and immersion the internationally acclaimed
is at the forefront of the production ‘Blood Brothers’ by
Department’s values. So we felt Willy Russel in The Grand Opera
there was no better way to kick House in March.
off the school year than with a trip
to Brusier Theatre Company’s
masterfully enacted and
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