Krobo Girls tops first second cycle schools drama festival

The Krobo Girls Senior High School(SHS) emerged the winners of the Eastern Regional edition of the first second cycle schools drama competition with 88 points.

The competition was organised by the Center for National Culture in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service at Koforidua.

Pope John SHS came second with 82 points and New Juaben Secondary Commercial SHS were third with 76 points.

Other schools that took part in the competition include Aburi Girls, Okuapeman and Oti Boateng SHSs.

The competing schools took away souvenirs from Indomie and Nestle Ghana Limited, the sponsors of the festival

The Director of the Centre for National Culture (CNC) Madam Gloria Bramson said the competition will be organized annually as a festival.

She said the festival seeks to promote creativity among the youth by helping them in the areas of script writing, sharpen their writing skills and the use of drama to promote national cohesion and development.

Madam Bramson urged students to write short stories and stressed that, the late Efo Kojo Mawugbe’s play “In the chest of a woman” which is now used as a literature book in senior high schools was nurtured in Koforidua and pleaded with students to do a lot more since it will be an advantage in the future.

Ms Sandra Nana Efua Boison the Public Relations Officer (PRO) at the National Commission on Culture (NCC) said drama in the second cycle schools will provide a better foundation for the appreciation of cultural diversity and to nourish individual creativity and innovation.

Ms Boison said the completion which is a national competition was officially launched on the 11th of June 2014 at Ashaiman Senior High School with the final competition to be held on the 25th-28th of September 2014 at the National theatre.