The Sutherland High School, Centurion, Drama Team is the winners at the Gauteng Regional Amateur Dramatics Series 2021.

Recently the Sutherland Drama Club participated successfully in the Gauteng Regional Amateur Dramatics Series (GRADS). Due to the pandemic this annual festival was transformed into a virtual competition with learners being required to video monologues in the categories of drama or comedy. The competition attracted entries from schools in all four corners of Gauteng with a total of eighty monologues entered.

After a grueling audition process, eighteen outstanding actors entered monologues coupled with seven experienced directors and a crew of 5 technical experts. The diversity of talent shown by the learners proved to be top class with many scripts being written by the learners themselves.

The caliber of Sutherland drama is evident in the results achieved after three rounds of judging. With twelve Sutherland learners receiving gold medals and six receiving silver medals.

Congratulations to the following learners:

COMEDY:

Neo Musi who was nominated for Best Actor as well as Best Direction in a Comedy.

Chelton Graham won Best Actor and Best Direction in a Comedy.

Robert Janse van Rensburg was nominated for Best Actor and won the Overall Best Original Comedy Script award as well as the Overall Best Comedy Production.

DRAMA:

Balilitha Mhangwane won Trophy for Best Original Script.

Elethu Siyo won Best Actress in a Drama nomination as well Best Overall Drama award.

Nhlakanipho Ndlovu produced, performed and wrote our top performing monologue, ‘Bewildered’, and also won the Best Actress in a Drama award, the Overall Best Actress Trophy as well as the Overall Best Production GRADS 2021.

TECHNICAL TEAM:

Our technical team comprised of Mickaylin Padayachy (Captain), Ashlea Graham, Akio Goliath, SirPatrick Mokgosi and Vuyani Adoro who won Best Sound in both Drama and Comedy as well as Best Lighting in a Drama.

Mickaylin Padayachy came home with the Overall Best Sound trophy for his brilliant sound cues in the production of Chelton Graham’s ‘Tips for Dating’.

Congratulations to all the participants and award winners confirming once again that Suthies drama is at the top of its game.