On Tuesday the 25th of January, the two TY classes took off for Mullingar first thing in the morning. We went there to take part in an All-Ireland drama competition. Everyone was so excited for the day that was ahead of us all. Our english teachers, Ms B and MS G, both accompanied us to Mullingar.
We had been working on our plays since the very beginning of the school year. A lot of hard work, time and effort went into each play. We had four plays in total from our school. Two plays were performed by class Amina and the other two plays were performed by class Emnet.
In my class, class Amina, we had a play based on the book "Noughts and Crosses". It has a fantastic storyline. The book is based on a world where black people are classed higher than white people. The girls who performed this play made an excellent job of it. On the day of the competition, this play was the first to perform. It was a really wonderful performance. The second play from class Amina was a play based on the poem "But you Didn't" by Merrill Glass. I was part of this play. I felt that we performed it really really well on the day. Most of the other girls told us that it looked really good on stage. In the play I was one of the main characters, along with Orlaigh and Beibhinn. Our play was very sad and moving, but at the same time funny, humorous and entertaining.
The two plays from the other class were performed well also. One of the plays from class Emnet was about a young girl being killed as a result of a dominating relationship and domestic violence. The other play was based on a young girl being killed on Leaving Cert results night as a result of one of her friends drink-driving.
The stage in the Mullingar theatre was a really nice, big stage. There were no microphones so we had to project our voices really well. The lighting and the background music worked well for all four of our plays. Not one character in any of the four plays hesitated with their lines, which made the performances all the more interesting. The adjudicator was a young lady from the television series, "The Clinic". She was a lovely lady and gave really good, helpful criticisms for each of our plays. She thought all four of the plays from St. Wolstan's were extremely good.
We were the first school to perform our plays that day so we were all finished by half twelve in the afternoon. Our bus wasn't taking us back home until around three o'clock so we had loads of time to get lunch and watch the other schools perform their plays.
When everyone had gathered up their belongings and had gotten changed, we all headed off down the town to find somewhere to get lunch. Of course, Mcdonald's was a huge attraction so I think nearly every girl went in their to buy lunch. Me, being a non-McDonald's fan, went in search of a nice coffee shop to find a nice lunch. I ended up getting a take-out soup with brown bread from a lovely little coffee shop on the corner of a street.
When everyone was finished their lunch, we all headed back to the theatre to get a glimpse of the rest of the competition. There were two other schools performing on that day. one of the schools had travelled all the way down from Donegal. The other school was also from Leinster, like ourselves. The other schools' plays were really good aswell.
At about half two, we headed for the bus with all of our bags and props. Everyone was tired after the long, exciting day we had had. The bus journey home was good fun aswell, with everyone singing along to the radio.
We are still waiting to hear whether or not any of the plays have made it through to the final, which will be held in Cork.
Seeing as we had four plays from our school, there is a good chance that at least one of the plays have made it through to the final. Fingers crossed! ;)
Niamh! :D
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