I would like to formally invite any sophomore or junior to audition for the 2019 One Act Competition Class. The goal of this class is to select, design, mount and perform a one-act play using both actors and technicians. This class will emphasize production work on a forty-minute play that will be entered into the … More One Act 2019 Auditions/Interviews
As I put on yet another layer of black grease paint and eyeliner on my face, I tried to remember how I got here, to this moment. How a subtle and loosely constructed conversation at a coffee shop led to staring into the glowing hot incandescent light bulbs of a dressing room in a college … More The Road We Traveled by Betsy Baker
What started as a late night musing from Ms. Figg-Franzoi’s imagination last spring, has evolved into a class creation based on Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Last spring, Figg asked the One Act class if they would be willing to devise a play based on an idea she had. The 26 students readily agreed. Summer … More Our One Act is going to STATE!
An idea had been simmering in the back of their mind for quite some time and it had become an obsession. Day and night they dreamt of strange characters, multi-coloured costumes, high emotions and cheering audiences. They dreamt of theatre, of putting on a show that bore their mark. They had things to say and … More Creating “Fall of Orpheus”
The 2016 One Act competition class worked all 1st trimester on creating a show to compete with at their state competition. Their hard work paid off when they walked away with 10 awards: Critics Choice Award Outstanding Ensemble Award Outstanding Stage Crew Award Outstanding Director Award Outstanding Actor: Emma Zander Outstanding Actor: Lauren Burghardt Outstanding … More One Act made a film…
The One Act Class is going to STATE! Join us for our public performance of Fall of Orpheus, an original play written and created by the students in the One Act class. Fall of Orpheus is a retelling of the classical greek myth about Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus and Eurydice are a newly married couple … More “Fall of Orpheus” is State Bound
I posted this to my instagram account (@figzoi) last year as a reminder to teach the passion for theatre, not force it on students. Last week after a fall play rehearsal two students stayed after to work on some One Act class choreography. This hadn’t happened in over a year… the want, the need within the … More Teach them Longing…
My summer ended already… Oh sure, I’m still not in school teaching, but as of three weeks ago my summer as a person pretending to not be a teacher ended. First… let me tell you that as Homestead’s Theatre Teacher, my summers had been traditionally filled with grad school classes seven days a week, but … More My summer ended already
By: Emma Zander (17′) Role: Vera Play: She Kills Monsters Before the day began Emma was worried- very worried. When Emma woke up at seven o’clock she did not want to get out of bed, much less fight monsters. As the day began, she ate a well-balanced breakfast (a pleasure Vera rarely indulges in, unless you … More Kickething Some Booty
By: TJ O’Connor I can’t remember what happened on Saturday morning; it was too long ago. Probably I was upset that I had to wake up early on a Saturday- on my birthday. Obviously I had the best birthday of all time, what’s more fun than One Act at Plinkerton? I can’t say I knew … More I broke the light board…
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