The spring play is finally here after many months of rehearsals and preparations.
“The play is actually a production of seven short one act comedies’ the topics vary. The title of the show is all in the timing by David Ives and it’s a very common show done in high school. It’s done very frequently even though some people haven’t heard of it,” Director Wendy King said.
The production of the play begins many months before. Auditions, set design, costumes, and rehearsals are all in important part of production.
“I start by picking a show on whether or not I think we have the actors that could do the show. Because we don’t want to do a show where we need twenty guys who know how to tap dance because I highly doubt were going to find enough guys in the high school that could tap dance. Then it goes into analysis of the play, finding out who all the characters are and then set design and costume design. And then after all of that we have auditions, rehearsal for about two to three months, and then we put on the show,” King said.
Set design is also a major factor in the production of the play.
“I very much like set design. A lot of directors just like directing and set designers just like designing but I love doing both. I usually spend a couple of weeks thinking about what will look best for the scene. And for this one because there are seven different scenes I had to have something that was flexible enough to be used for all of them. So what we’re doing for this one is something called a periaktoi, it’s a very tall triangle its four feet by eight feet, it’s got three sides and it rotates. Each side is going to have something different painted on it. So that’s what we’re using for outset with a few props being brought on like tables and chairs,” King said.
Funding for the plays comes from the plays themselves.
“All of the money we spend is based off of previous ticket sales so the money that we are using for this show is based off of ticket sales from the last show. We don’t get any money from the school for anything it’s just based off of people coming to see the show,” King said.
The final performance is what everyone looks forward too.
“I enjoy watching the students create characters starting from the beginning and seeing how they develop a character because rarely how they end up is how they started auditions. With every rehearsal every student as an actor gets better, louder, and more confident and watching them progress from each rehearsal throughout shows is so much fun to watch,” King said.
The plays characters differ vastly throughout the play.
I play Miltan who is a chimp and Al who is stuck in a Philadelphia. We practice twice a week early on and by the end it goes up to five. It’s about half an hour for each practice,” junior Chloe Dunaway said.
Drama is a great opportunity to start acting.
“In 8th grade I started going to improv club which is really like acting but without any structure but that was a lot of fun so I got into drama,” Dunaway said.
Overall the play is a great way to act while having a blast.
“I play kanafit who is a guy and swissi who is a monkey in the play. I like being with people and it’s a neat bond that you make with the cast. I’m really looking forward to performing,” sophomore Greg Wilkins said.
