Drama plays an important part in the life of the school. There are a number of productions each year: a major drama and opera production in conjunction with the Music Department, smaller scale productions by the Drama Club and other groups of pupils and periodic performances by visiting companies. In previous years the school has presented Macbeth, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado about Nothing and The Tempest, Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and The Hypochondriac, Gogol's The Government Inspector, Shaw's The Devil's Disciple and Pygmalion, Beckett's Endgame, Edward Bond's The Sea and Stone, Toad of Toad Hall, The Elephant Man, a number of one act plays including four by Chekhov, Arthur Miller's The Crucible and A View from the Bridge, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus, Keith Dewhurst's Don Quixote and Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Sheridan's School for Scandal, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Brian Friel's Translations, Ben Jonson's Volpone, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good and a production of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

Great importance is attached to all theatrical skills so that pupils become closely involved in the design and construction of scenery, the making of costumes, the use of the school's extensive and up-to-date lighting system, stage management and the technique of make-up.

Several members of staff direct, often assisted by pupils from the sixth form.