Team Work!!!

Today in rehearsal we talked about Team Work!  :o)

I just want to take a minute to reiterate that there are NO SMALL PARTS IN THIS PLAY (or in any play for that matter) - despite the number of lines you have, you are vital to this production!

We are a team!  

Our team includes all of the actors - the largest number of students we have ever cast.  It also includes the director, assistant director, stage manager, lighting designer, set designer, props designers, costume designer, parent help, and all the other areas that go into making a production happen ... it's all about team work, working together to make one awesome show!!!

Furthermore, the concept for this show is that our students are playing a troupe of actors who go out and perform these myths all over, and in each new place that they are performing they take turns doing the different roles, like how Manso's name gets pulled out of the hat to play Zeus.  The idea is that if they were to move onto another town, someone else's name would likely come out of the hat as Zeus, etc....  (I hope that makes sense.)

We also talked about "The Actors Job" - becoming a character, memorizing your lines, writing down your blocking during rehearsal so you remember it when practicing at home, and HAVING FUN!!!

*I've also encouraged the kids to do "background research" - actors homework if you will - in the form of looking on the internet, or in a book of Greek Myths etc., and reading an actual written version of the myths in the play.  It could help with their understanding of their characters, among other things.  :o)

I want everyone to have fun!

It is a play ... so play!!!

~Ms. Hall