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A cozy winter atmosphere surrounds you as you enter a room filled with new love, old love and new found friendships.
Welcome to Almost, Maine, a place that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States. It’s almost in Canada. And it’s not quite a town, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it almost doesn’t exist. One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night’s dream.
Mr. Baldridge’s Advanced theatre class has been working hard for these past three months to open this small play themselves and on Thu., Jan. 23. It opened up for the whole school to see at 4:30pm for eight dollars at the door.
This play is particularly special for many seniors in the class as they did this as one of their first shows ever in freshman year.
Some, like seniors Addi Cudd, Julian Pankowski, Deven Martinez and Sophie Gomez, were able to do the same exact scene with the same exact person from freshman year.
All scenes in the show were directed and run by students, giving them creative liberty to do whatever they envisioned. They worked closely with other students who served as actors.
For Senior Jurnee Joseph, the difference of being directed by a student rather than an adult fostered some initial weirdness.
“It was definitely different to work with a student director,” she said. “It felt weird because we were both students but he’s now telling me what to do.”
However Joseph adjusted quite quickly and enjoyed herself through the whole process.
I was always excited coming into theatre everyday, looking forward to working on it,” she commented. “Once we got back to school, from being absent due to the fires, we picked up right where we left off and the process began to run smoothly.”
She even became closer with her scene partner, junior Connor Ruckman.
“Working with my scene partner, Connor Ruckman, was random but in a good way,” she explained. “We weren’t that close but we became closer because of this show. I really enjoyed working with him and I’m really proud of what we accomplished.”
On Friday, Jan 24 at 7pm, the last show ran and closed with much applause from the audience and pride in the hearts of the students. If you didn’t get to see it, don’t worry! There will be assemblies showcasing the play for students to watch on Thu. Jan. 30 and Fri. Jan. 31st third period.
