25 June 2025
Our annual Wold Fringe Festival opened on Monday 23 June with a delightful double bill from the Drama Department. The entertainment began with LAMDA students reprising their recent exam performances. While some of the students are new to LAMDA studies and others ‘old hands’, all performed brilliantly, with the audience enjoying solo and two-hander excerpts from plays ranging from Chekov’s Three Sisters to After Juliet by Sharman Macdonald, as well as poetry and an engaging short presentation on scuba diving from a student on the public speaking course. Although not performing on the night, congratulations are due to three of our LAMDA students – Ivy in Year 11 and Georgia and Waishe in Lower Sixth – who gained their Grade 6 Bronze Medal in Public Speaking recently.
Music and dance were on the menu in the second half of the evening, as our Glee Club presented The Legends Live On, bringing Aretha Franklin, Queen, Whitney Houston, the Spice Girls, Abba and many more to the Woldingham stage. It was a fun, fabulous and feel-good production, which left everyone appropriately gleeful.
The baton was passed to the Music Department the following evening as our Anything Goes concert began with the Woldingham Symphony Orchestra’s powerful performance of Mambo! from Westside Story, complete with some beautifully timed audience participation under the expert direction of Mr Hammond-Hall. As always, this informal end-of-year celebration of music delivered a kaleidoscopic repertoire, much of it suggested by the students themselves. The title of a song performed beautifully by our Junior Choir seemed to sum up the approach of Woldingham students as the end of a busy academic year draws near - Try Everything.