The whole week, in order.

Tableau: the defining moment

Four teams · 10 minutes total

Working from myths and legends, MYP 1 stage a series of tableaux — frozen scenes held in silence, no words and no movement. Each team picks the single moment that defines their hero: the choice, the loss, or the act of courage the whole story turns on.

Everything before and after has to be readable in one still image, which means the hardest work happens before anyone steps on stage. Deciding which moment matters most is the real assignment.

Game stalls

Fifteen stalls · 35 minutes

Fifteen stalls designed and run by MYP 2 — word games, puzzles and challenges built for the rest of the school to play. They run alongside DP 1's gallery walk, and people drop in and out freely.

Stand-up comedy: how language makes people laugh

Four performers · 3 minutes each

Four MYP 3 students take the stage with three minutes each to demonstrate something they've been studying properly: the mechanics of humour. Timing, misdirection, wordplay, the deliberate break in a pattern — comedy is a set of techniques, not an accident.

Writing a joke is one thing; delivering it to your entire school and waiting for the laugh is another.

Slam poetry: resilience, rights, and speaking for others

Four performers · 2 minutes each

Four MYP 4 poets perform original work on resilience, standing up for rights, and giving voice to people who go unheard. Slam poetry is written to be spoken, not read — it lives in rhythm, breath, volume and the pauses between lines.

Each poem is the poet's own, performed by the poet, with no music and no script to hide behind.

Socratic seminar & ethical dilemmas

Team of 7 · 10 minutes

MYP 5 take on the hardest question in the programme: how do you tell right from wrong when both sides have a case? Their session runs as a Socratic seminar — a team of seven building and testing an argument live, with no winner declared and no script. They work through ethical dilemmas where the obvious answer collapses under scrutiny.

Running alongside it: an exploration of Lady Justice, the blindfolded figure holding the scales, and what her symbols actually claim about fairness — and a performance drawing on Arthur Miller's All My Sons (1947), a play about a father, a business decision, and the point where responsibility can no longer be avoided.

Graffiti & global issues

35 minutes, alongside the game stalls

DP 1 present a gallery walk built around graffiti and global issues — two things that turn out to be the same subject. Graffiti sits exactly where art, protest and vandalism overlap, and where you draw those lines depends entirely on who you are and where you're standing.

Their work asks what gets called art when it's on a canvas and a crime when it's on a wall, and how visual language carries political argument when other channels are closed.

A Doll's House

30 minutes · Full production

DP 2 bring Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879) to the stage in two parts — a reading of the play, followed by a performance of its key scenes. It's the story of a woman who realises the life she's been living was arranged for her by everyone but herself.

When it premiered, the ending caused enough outrage that Ibsen was pressured into writing an alternative. Nearly 150 years on it's still uncomfortable in exactly the right ways, and it closes the student showcase as the longest piece of the morning.