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Dramatic Arts at Lawrence Park for the 2025-2026 School Year
Drama at LP is back and better than ever for the 2024/25 school year! We are so excited to be coordinating a variety of fantastic events and productions!
Students at Lawrence Park have many opportunities to view performances and perform themselves. We are very proud of our rich history of performances. We invite all future students to come out for a preview of the many performance opportunities at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute.
Follow @LPCIdrama on Instagram and Tiktok for updates! If you have any questions, speak to Mr. Stamp! You can usually find him in the auditorium or via email: alex.stamp@tdsb.on.ca!
Come help build sets and construct props in exchange for volunteer hours. Sign up through the QR code above.
School Play:
Lawrence Park’s School Play is a yearly event that happens around the end of each school year. Last years play was Trap. In the past few years, some plays we have done include The Dining Room, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon, Les Misérables, The Miracle Worker, Arsenic and Old Lace and Departures and Arrivals, Anne of Green Gables and Little Women. Student actors and crew as well as a teacher director gather together around mid-October to start rehearsals. Months and months of rehearsals are held, and costumes and props come to rehearsals around December to start deciding the props and costumes needed for the specific play. Tons of energy, time, and effort go into the process of a successful play. Students spend countless hours after school and a few weekends running over scenes until they are close to perfect, our awesome set designers spend many hours designing and staging, and our always helpful stage crew never disappoints. All of this couldn’t have been done without our teacher and student directors, whom we are always grateful for.
This year, our fall play is Coven! In previous years, we performed Clue On Stage and The Snow Queen: a Freezing farcical, an interactive comedy in the style of British Pantomime. This was performed for Lawrence Park students as well as some of the schools in our community, including audiences of children from our feeder schools.
Come see Coven in December, tickets will be available on School Cash Online!
NTS Council:
The NTS Drama Festival is a drama festival of one-act performances that are directed and performed by students. We are proud to be among the few schools that submit multiple plays, as opposed to just one, and host the event each year. Students get the opportunity to work in a group of their peers to see the dramatic process from beginning to end. NTS Dramafest is a competition between schools to create the best dramatic performance; however, it is much more than that. NTS is an acting and directing opportunity to play with dramatic elements and build an understanding and love for dramatic creation. It gives the students the ability to try new and exciting acting and directing techniques on a manageable scale. The student directors choose the one-act plays that will be done; this year, we will be entering two performances into the festival: one is a published play by Canadian playwright, Nika Rylski, "The Tie that Binds,” the other is a student-written play, "Humanity 101". Students are encouraged to get it of their comfort zones and experience the vast world of drama.
Come support LP's Dramafest performance in early March! Tickets will be available on School Cash Online.
Some previous productions
Grade 12 One-act Play Festival:
In the past, the grade 12 drama class put on a show called the One Act Festival. The students were divided into smaller casts and were required to produce their own dramatic skit. Each group of students was responsible for writing and performing the script as well as fulfilling the technical aspects of the production. The success of this festival lies in the diversity of the acts, with each act being quite unique from the next. It allows spectators to enjoy a wide variety of plays in such a short period of time.
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