London, UK
Hof ten Berg | Senior Secondary DP 1 and 2
School Outing
Excursion- DP 1 and 2 - Senior Secondary
Date: 8/10/25 – 11/10/25
Transport: Train
The Theatre students will attend an ISTA IB Theatre workshop (www.ista.co.uk) at London’s Hammersmith Theatre with two Master Classes with Theatre professionals. They will explore the four dimensions of their theatre course; staging play texts, exploring world theatre traditions, collaboratively create original theatre and apply theatre theories.
In the evening, the students will attend theatre plays. On Wednesday, the 8th of October, they will attend the classic murder mystery by Agatha Christie, The Mousetrap, at the Saint Martin’s Theatre. This play has been performed since 1952, and is set in a snowbound guest house called Monkswell Manor. As guests arrive, they become trapped together due to a blizzard, and tensions rise when a detective investigates a recent murder, leading to a series of revelations and a surprising twist ending.
ISTA is also offering two theatre plays for the students to watch:
Strangers Things: The First Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre. Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy… and the shadows of the past have a very long reach. This play is brought to life by a multi-award-winning creative team, who take theatrical storytelling and stagecraft to a whole new dimension. It brings the spectator back to the beginning of the Stranger Things story and may hold the key to the end.
Dracula, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre: “Beware the teller as much as the tale” Mina Harker has a story to tell. Armed only with her husband’s journal, a pile of old letters and her wits, she begins to piece together the story of the mysterious Count Dracula and his journey to England. But is Mina’s story merely memory – or does it have the power to conjure the dead? In this new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s horror classic, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Emilia) uncovers the female voices at the heart of the tale.
