Ah sleep... This weekend I've gotten a lot of sleep :) It's nice!
Fall Festival went really well. The 10 schools each performed their shows at their own schools on the weekend of November 14-17. Then, after each school closed, their props, set and costumes were put into trucks and loaded into S & Co in preparation for Festival weekend. My bragging rights include fitting an entire show (2 laundry baskets of shoes, 1 of hats and the costumes for 30 kids) into my little 4 door Chevy Prism.
The week before Festival was nice- dry techs and wet techs at Founders' Theatre. Fairly relaxing. Then Festival weekend: 10 shows from 6:30pm Thursday through 5pm on Sunday. A half hour for each changeover. The costume department is so well-oiled that it took 20 minutes to strike the show, sort laundry/dry cleaning/restock, move from the theatre to the shop and start laundry.
The Festival itself was amazing, and pretty awe-inspiring. The main part of the theatre filled with over a hundred high school students, watching Shakespeare and cheering like they're at a rock concert. And they GOT it. All of them, the performers and the audience, knew what they were talking about. The kids were cheering the heros, "aww"ing at the romance, and hissing at the villains. They were on their feet for the end of every performance. One of the employees took a time lapse video of the entire weekend.
I took photos of both of the shows I designed: Lenox High and Chatham High. Both did Hamlet!
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