"The House is on Fire!"

At the beginning of September our Drama DP class had a performance to perform in the month of November. In august our teacher which was here for the last year had gone back to the U.S.A and we then had a replacement teacher for that time. Unfortunately we did not due much but read about a play called "ART" which was supposed to be our piece for the 12th grade performance. I and the other classmates did not really like this play and asked for another one which is more interesting and fun to play. Miss. Grant fortunately found one of her old plays in which she performed when she was an actress. This play only contains 3 characters: Ted, Shirley and Gloria. Now this play is both dramatic and funny. The character of Gloria in which I am playing is a transvestite. We have been rehearsing for this play very hard. This week is drill week, every day after school we go to the auditorium and fine tune the play for we are performing this Thursday & Friday. I hope this show goes well and I don't break from my character by laughing.

 

I am also part of another play called “The Night of January 16th". This piece is about a murder or so the court and jury are trying to figure out. My character is called Guts o' Regan. I am a thug gangster who is in love with the defendant but unfortunately she loves another man (the one suspected of killing the victim). With all the work being done in school I am grateful that this play will be in March and that my part is only 10 minutes. Not that I don’t want to be in the play, there is a lot of dialog for me in that ten minutes. Altogether, I am rehearsing very hard to be up to the expectations of Miss. Grant and hope that these plays will shock and entertaining for the audience.