Drama Scholarship and Enrichment with Jordana Goldbourn – Jun 2026

Last week Drama Scholarship and Enrichment students were given the opportunity to explore a new play, Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia, which premiered at the National Theatre in July 2025. This opportunity was broken into two parts, a seminar style session on Monday, followed by a practical workshop on the Wednesday led by external facilitator Jordana Golbourn.

Jordana Golbourn is a Community Theatre Maker. For over a decade her work has taken place in schools, theatres and women’s prisons across the U.K., New York, Thailand and Germany for companies such as Almeida Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation. Her work draws on the personal, community and political narratives of the artists she collaborates with, celebrating their individuality and imaginations with a process driven by play, curiosity and honesty.

Year 12’s Edward and Year 10’s Isabella share their experiences of both.

Edward, Year 12

“We began the series with a seminar led by Issy about Inter Alia. The session provided useful insight into the play’s themes, context and dramatic intentions.

Throughout the session, we explored the text in detail, looking at the different roles that the protagonist, Jessica Parks, takes on. We delved into her actions as a mother, wife, judge, and friend, highlighting the complexities of her character.

Issy explained key ideas clearly and encouraged an in-depth discussion, helping us think more critically about the text and its relevance to contemporary audiences.”

Isabelle, Year 10

“On Wednesday we welcomed Jordana Golbourn to host a workshop based on the play. The play explores gender contrasts, motherhood, and modern masculinity through realistic dialogue, making it an interesting text to work with.

During the workshop, we split the scene into beats to identify changes in the characters emotions and objectives. This made the script easier to understand and helped us create a clearer performance. We also experimented with repeating the last word of each line spoken by another character and saying the next line when we heard the impulse word, which encouraged active listening and helped us show genuine reactions to what was being said.

Overall, the workshop was very effective and gave me useful rehearsal techniques that I can apply in future performances.”