Performance Details

Stuff you really, really need to pay attention to....


Scene Performances

Performance Order

Thursday

1. Turkish Delight
2. Jill Meets Aslan
3. Captive of the Silver Chair
4. Hamlet & Ophelia
5. Antigone Retold
6. Perelandra
7. Marley Visits Scrooge

Friday

1. Antigone Retold
2. Perelandra
3. Hamlet & Ophelia
4. Marley Visits Scrooge
5. Turkish Delight
6. Jill Meets Aslan
7. Captive of the Silver Chair
   

When:
Thurs & Fri, Dec 8 & 9
1:00pm


Where:
main auditorium stage


Who:
Thurs: little kids (3rd/4th)
Fri: big kids (6th & up)


Lunch
Watch what you eat for lunch ... you'll be onstage in little more than an hour. Avoid milk, soda, and eating too much. But DO eat. You could pass out on stage if you skip food entirely.

If you don't want to eat at lunchtime, eat substantially at snacktime. Make it protein & complex carbs -- not sugar.

Pictures
I'd like to take shots of you guys doing your scenes as well as a few "portrait" shots of the two (or three) of you in character. It's fun to be able to look back and say, "Wow ... that was me!"

We'll have to squeeze them in when we can -- before the performances, probably. I won't take a ton of shots -- if y'all want a really good set of photos, we can arrange a time for that after school or sometime the following week.

Thursday: Photos for "Turkish Delight," "Jill & Aslan," & "Scrooge & Marley"
Friday: Photos for "Captive of the Silver Chair," "Antigone Retold," "Hamlet & Ophelia," & "Perelandra"


Call time:
Be in full costume and seated in the drama room by 12:45 at the latest.

Have your props laid out on the correct side of the stage (off stage, down the steps). Think through your entrance so you know whether you need to come from the drama room or from the science room (happily, they are connected, remember?) =)

If you're getting your picture taken (see above), be dressed and seated on the stage by 12:15. Thursday photos: You have permission to eat at 11:30.


Dressing Rooms:
Girls-- you've got the room between the drama room & the science room. You can also dress in the bathroom downstairs -- but you MUST not leave any of your stuff in that bathroom -- bring it with you to the drama room during performances.

Guys-- Use the bathroom downstairs but don't leave your stuff around during the performance. You can also change in one of the empty Sunday School rooms upstairs (above the library), but again -- don't leave your stuff up there.

I plan to put a full-length mirror in the drama room.


"Green Room":
Traditionally, the backstage room where actors wait to go "on" is called "the green room." I can't remember why ... anyways, our "green room" will be the drama room. Before you perform your scene, you need to be in the drama room.

• Be in the drama room in full costume by 12:45.
• Do NOT be late.
  
• Do NOT leave the drama room between 12:45 and performance time for any reason other than death or the apocalypse.
• Don't visit the audience before the show. It shatters the "illusion" of your character ... and without illusion, theater is nothing. Besides, that's really unprofessional.
  

Once 1:00 rolls around, you need to be QUIET. Your noise will carry out into the performance area, even with the door shut. Use that time to prepare for your role -- get into character; look over your lines; play a quiet card game; relax and breathe deeply... just be QUIET. It's a great time to run a quiet, no-inflections line rehearsal with your scene partner.

You can also stand quietly outside the drama room door and watch what's happening on stage. Just make sure no one in the audience can see you.

Bethany (on Thursday) & Rebekah (on Friday) -- would you make sure things stay calm in the Green Room? Thanks muchly.


When It's All Over

After performing your scene, join us in the audience to watch the rest of the performances. I'll save seats on the ends of rows for you.

Curtain Calls:
Do a curtain call (return for applause) at the end of your scene. I know where they end, so I'll get the crowd to applaud at the right moment.
End your scene, pause for a count to 5 (or until you hear the applause), and walk to the front center to take your bow -- Please add this to your rehearsals this week.

Don't be surprised if you're called up to the front again for a mass curtain call at the very end. Probably depends on the mood of the crowd. [Hence your seats on the ends of rows in the audience.] =)


Heading to the Next Class:
On Thursday, you'll have to change quickly and get to chapel on time. Don't use drama as an excuse to be 20 minutes late for chapel...

On Friday, I'll give you time to greet the audience and sign autographs ;) before shooing you off to the last hour class. Enjoy the fellowship; bask in the glory. You will have earned it!!

******
Whew.
A LOT of details.



--Rehearse every day this week (M-W).
--Work on the three things I listed in the previous post: speak LOUDLY, speak SLOWLY, and "overdo" your characterization.
--I need to see the following scenes again at these times:

• Silver Chair scene -- Tuesday at 11:30 (Nate & Claire -- you'll probably have to miss the lunchtime chapel meeting) ... and please talk to me Monday before your recess rehearsal about some blocking changes for your scene
  
• Hamlet scene -- Tuesday after the MND rehearsal
  
• Scrooge & Marley -- Wednesday at 11:30
  

Others have asked ... I'll take you on first-come, first-served basis
Taylor & Bettina -- Monday, 11:30


These scenes are gonna be AWESOME
*nods*