Objects of Substance – Doreen Yeates Interhouse Play Competi

that has carried me through a 25-year career in some tough artistic marketplaces, contributing to a sense of self in a business where women practitioners continue to fight for equality. In 1986, the School consisted of only six Houses, and the Interhouse Drama competition was held in what was known as ‘The Auditorium’, a proscenium arch theatre with a very large audience capacity.

2001, Beanland’s Libby Gill (2001) as Snow White in the Interhouse play, Snow White performed in The Auditorium

With the demolition of The Auditorium to make way for the current Cherrell Hirst Creative Learning Centre in 2006, and the introduction of three more Houses —O’Connor, Beanland, and Mackay in 1990, 1994, and 1998 respectively — by the mid-2000s it became too difficult to find rehearsal and performance spaces to stage the competition. Finding time amongst so many other co-curricular offerings and the great demands that the competition placed on Year 12 House Drama captains were other reasons why the competition stopped. Who knows, perhaps in a different format, with a large new theatre, the Doreen Yeates Interhouse Play Competition Trophy could once again be awarded on Speech Day.

Ms Sybil Edwards (Curtis, 1983) — Head of Lilley House

Mrs Pauline Harvey-Short (Harvey, 1971) — School History and Culture Manager

References

BGGS Archives History of Co-curricular Drama 1902-2024

Chambers, M. Email correspondence 30.04.2024

Dunlop, B Email correspondence 07.05.2024

Fryberg, E. Email correspondence 30.04.2024 and 01.05.2024