Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 2015, Page 46

Description:	Theatre Souths first Shakespeare play of the decade enjoys successthanks to the actors dedication to their craft.For their Spring 2015 production,Theatre South did something daring.chemistry. Chemistry off-stagegreatly contributed to the on-stageFor the first time in 12 years, they performances. Were all really goodput on a Shakespeare play. With friends, Feiner said. I think thattheir production of A Midsummer made our chemistry on-stage a lotNights Dream, performers strove to more real than it wouldve been if wemake something old into something hadnt known each othernew; their goal was to make their beforehand.fellow Bloomington High School As usual, Theatre SouthSouth students want to see their thespians immersed themselves intorendition of Shakespeares classic. to their roles, even if they did have toBecause the play was written channel the Bard. The chemistryover 400 years ago, the language between the players is what made itwas quite difficult to acclimate to.production] powerful,Theatre South performers worked sophomore Lucia Davila said. Wediligently to convey the meaning of all had so much fun up there doingthe play with actions rather than it. The cohesion was clear in thewords. Using physical comedy performances, and the audienceinstead of relying on language picked up on it as well. Our energyhelped, sophomore Benedict was supposed to reflect theMiller said. While there are jokes audiences energy, so when theyin the language, people arent were down we wanted them to benecessarily going to get all that on up, Davila said. We were workingthe first listen. In order to up the on that and making use of all thecomedic ante, Miller said the wonderful props and the set that wephysical comedy helped to make had to bring it to life. If you havepeople laugh.energy up there that makes itA second challenge presented something enjoyable to watch.subtleitself when the actors tried to put With subtle additions oftheir own spin on such a well-known contemporary music and thework. What made it different had a acapella voices of the fairies, castlot to do with our cast, sophomore and crew successfully resurrectedAbigail Feiner said. Our cast was Shakespeare in this production.really unique and we all had a lot of-CALEB NORIEGAAf
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