Fall Play

 We got to PERFORM our Fall Play! We moved our Saturday show to a Sunday matinee since the football team had a playoff game on Saturday, so that was a new experience. And it wasn’t easy rehearsing more than 40 roles with a cast and crew of 20 and never once having everyone present due to quarantine, actual COViD, mental health rest, and other illnesses until opening night! So I am proud of these kids. And since this is my personal blog I will be biased and say I’m especially proud of Caeden. He stepped up! He was such a leader and encourager and example. He convinced friends to try it out, he took risks with his acting, he portrayed a variety of roles and did them all SO WELL. I’m incredibly proud of him and so thankful to get to do theatre with my kid.

We did 2 one-act plays. The first “Appropriate Audience Behavior” was our actors portraying an audience behaving badly while watching a performance of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” In this one, Caeden played Tony—the frat guy superfan of Claudius, and he also played Hamlet.

Our second one-act was “When Bad Things Happen to Good Actors,” and it was a production of The Wizard of Oz gone completely wrong. In this one, Caeden played the Scarecrow who didn’t realize he wasn’t in the musical version of Wizard of Oz, and he also played the Building Manager who was having marriage problems. He even debuted a southern accent on opening night that was never rehearsed, and he did great. It was really fun!

Here is a link to my photo album:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HWHUGCAFJe6o2652A

And here is a YouTube playlist of the show!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEki_UXnMZzCtWK4JxLrIrY-0VcVwXeHV