Rangi Ruru drama students win in Brisbane

&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;" alignright size-full wp-image-1080" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schoolnewsnz&period;fastrackdev&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;IMG&lowbar;6401&lowbar;300x225&period;jpg" alt&equals;"IMG 6401 300x225" style&equals;"margin&colon; 5px&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"225" &sol;>Rangi Ruru Girls&&num;8217&semi; School senior theatre scholars have taken away Best Play First Prize&comma; Best Director&comma; and Best Set Design at The Brisbane Arts Theatre Festival held at the weekend for their production of Crave by British playwright Sarah Kane&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <&excl;--more--> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The senior drama students competed in the &&num;8216&semi;open&&num;8217&semi; section despite there being a youth section&period; This was because of the language and content of Crave&comma; a play often described as an &&num;8220&semi;extreme theatre piece&&num;8221&semi; for &&num;8220&semi;mature audiences&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brisbane Arts Theatre artistic director and festival adjudicator&comma; John Boyce&comma; praised the girls for their extraordinary discipline and ensemble work&period; Rangi Ruru director of theatre arts&comma; Robert Gilbert&comma; said his students showed they could perform at the highest level&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;They have consistently demonstrated that they can come together and create theatre magic&period; I am immensely proud of them&period; What a special group of young actors&period; It has been a privilege to be part of their journey&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The South East Queensland Theatre Festival circuit links 10 festivals from June to September each year&comma; culminating in the Brisbane Arts Theatre Festival&period; Typically&comma; many of the top theatre groups enter several of these festivals to improve their craft&comma; and develop their production&period; Most groups also have seasons of these productions in their own theatres&period; This was Rangi Ruru&&num;8217&semi;s first attempt&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The same group of students won &&num;8216&semi;Best Production&&num;8217&semi; at the Norfolk Island Theatre Festival last year with Bottom&&num;8217&semi;s Tale – excerpts from A Midsummer Night&&num;8217&semi;s Dream&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;