Hillgrove's Plays
By: Isabelle Lamey
Coming up on October 29th is the One-Act competition where young actors will compete to eventually be in the play called Our Place which will take place on October 20-22. Do the actors in the play have a hard time preparing for this play or dealing with their nerves? “The nervous feeling leaves after the beginning of the play and once you start you eventually become comfortable on stage and it becomes easy” answers Cadence Mott, a 12th grader who has been in the plays at Hillgrove since her freshman year. Cadence says “a good way to calm your nerves before a play is to talk to your friends and they will help calm you down.” After Cadence practices her lines with her friends for a while, the words just come out naturally on stage.
Usually, plays should affect the audience emotionally and the audience should feel some type of emotion rather it’s a comedy and they’re laughing, or the play is sad and the audience is crying. Do the Hillgrove plays do this? Cadence felt sad the moment she finished reading the play. “It’s happy in the beginning and then it gets sad and heavier at the end.”
Being in clubs and school activities is a good way to make friends or to find people with similar interests. Does Hillgrove give the students an opportunity to meet people with similar interests and for people who are more introverted to make friends easily? Participating in Hillgrove plays and being in theater class allows introverts to make friends easily because there are a lot of outgoing people who allow people to make conversation easily. James Martin, an 11th grader who hasn’t been in a theater class, says “the class seems very welcoming and has only heard good things about it.” Go out and support Hillgrove by going to the plays.
Coming up on October 29th is the One-Act competition where young actors will compete to eventually be in the play called Our Place which will take place on October 20-22. Do the actors in the play have a hard time preparing for this play or dealing with their nerves? “The nervous feeling leaves after the beginning of the play and once you start you eventually become comfortable on stage and it becomes easy” answers Cadence Mott, a 12th grader who has been in the plays at Hillgrove since her freshman year. Cadence says “a good way to calm your nerves before a play is to talk to your friends and they will help calm you down.” After Cadence practices her lines with her friends for a while, the words just come out naturally on stage.
Usually, plays should affect the audience emotionally and the audience should feel some type of emotion rather it’s a comedy and they’re laughing, or the play is sad and the audience is crying. Do the Hillgrove plays do this? Cadence felt sad the moment she finished reading the play. “It’s happy in the beginning and then it gets sad and heavier at the end.”
Being in clubs and school activities is a good way to make friends or to find people with similar interests. Does Hillgrove give the students an opportunity to meet people with similar interests and for people who are more introverted to make friends easily? Participating in Hillgrove plays and being in theater class allows introverts to make friends easily because there are a lot of outgoing people who allow people to make conversation easily. James Martin, an 11th grader who hasn’t been in a theater class, says “the class seems very welcoming and has only heard good things about it.” Go out and support Hillgrove by going to the plays.
