Students To Stage “The Corpse’s Comedy” Among Other Acts As Part Of SRC Week Celebrations At Pepease St. Dominic’s SHTS
As part of the 2023 SRC Week Celebrations at St. Dominic’s Senior High Technical School, Pepease-Kwahu, the final year literature students of the General Arts Department have been officially billed to a night of stuff productions on Wednesday, March 22.
The activities include choreography, proverb competitions, poetry recitals and the main production, a scripted stage performance of ‘THE CORPSE’s COMEDY’. The drama will not be an improvised but a well known scripted performance where characters lively take their lines as directed.
Speaking to Obsoul of Sixscribes Network on what motivated the toil to take students through the classical scripts for the play, the director, Mr. Bernard Acheampong (Nana Achie) who doubles as a literature teacher in the school said apart from the entertainment aspect of the whole display, it becomes a requisite to use the performance as a tool to draw literature students close to the practical usage of literary elements. To him, this performance will go a long way to entertain patrons as well as equip targeted learners to excel in their field in the future.
He further stated that, in his capacity as an experienced Performing Arts student from the University of Education, Winneba, he capitalises on this as a challenge to mount the maiden edition of such Acts in the history of the school.
“As part of their course, this is necessary to improve students academically; to help and get students involved, to know how to practically use certain elements in literature. Secondly, as a Performing Arts student I am taking this opportunity to showcase to Pepease and Kwahu as a whole, as well as the entire school body how classical performance is done to entertain people. It is going to be a fascinating night. It is going to be an interesting night so we wish to host a lot of people to get the feel of the whole experience. It will be a remarkable night.” Mr. Bernard Acheampong said.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR OF THE PERFORMANCES:
Mr. Bernard Acheampong had his first degree at the University of Education, Winneba. He majored in Playwriting and Directing as a student of the School of Performing Arts. His creative acting expertise has won him a lot of paid stage acts in many productions.
Nana Achie has singlehandedly directed popular performances like ‘Edufa’ and ‘Edibles and Disposables’ when he was in the final year in the university. He was also the President of both Music and Theatre Arts students during his senior year in the university.
Although, this becomes the maiden direction of Nana Achie as a teacher of DOSTECH, it is of no doubt that patrons will experience such an intriguing performance from the cast of characters considering the director’s level of skills.
WHEN IS THE SRC WEEK CELEBRATION?
The activities of the SRC Week Celebrations are set to begin on Monday, March 20 to Saturday, March 23. Renowned personalities like gospel artist Cecilia Marfo and popular actor and comedian Kwadwo Nkansah Lilwin will perform as part of the schedules.
