"The Burgundy Jacket" recap
Last night was ICUS's performance of The Burgundy Jacket, a play written/directed by my good friend, David, and produced by my best friend, Carter. The play was based on the novel Say Goodnight, Gracie. The play revolves around two best friends, Patrick and Maggie (played by David and Liz) who have known each other since birth. One night, on his way to an appointment (Patrick's a dancer/actor), Patrick is hit by a drunk driver and thrown from his car. He falls into a coma and dies from head injuries.
The second half of the play is Maggie coming to terms with Patrick's death and learning to let go of him.
We performed the play in honor of David Synder, an ICS middle school alum who was killed by a drunk driver when David was writting the play a few years ago. We also had a representive from MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) come and speak as well as collect donations for MADD/SADD. We ended up raising over $1,000 according to David's announcment at the end of the play.
Carter and I ran the backstage portion via headsets. I had a crew of three-to-four people on stage left the entire night and she had a crew of the same on her side. My biggest problem was trying to move props around the cast, who were in the way a lot of the time and blocking my view of cues. The hardest prop to move on my side was the sofa. It was heavy and awkward and there is no way to move a wooden sofa quickly.
Using my left leg is a little awkward at the moment (it turned blue-purple from tapping into props and moving the sofa). It's fairly sore. Mum's taking me in for blood work this week. She's really worried that my anemia is worse than the doctor thought.
In other news:
~ Fatal Target is aproximately 1/4 of the way completed at 20,000 words. Projected finish date: mid-March
~ I loaded a short story I wrote earlier this year for AP Lit. It concerns the seven deadly sins. It ties in the most with Kill Zone.
~ I have been accepted into the two colleges I am seriously considering and they've both offered me scholarships.
~ It's just a little over a month before I get my life back a bit. Yearbook deadline is the first week of March. Yay for freetime! :-D
The second half of the play is Maggie coming to terms with Patrick's death and learning to let go of him.
We performed the play in honor of David Synder, an ICS middle school alum who was killed by a drunk driver when David was writting the play a few years ago. We also had a representive from MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) come and speak as well as collect donations for MADD/SADD. We ended up raising over $1,000 according to David's announcment at the end of the play.
Carter and I ran the backstage portion via headsets. I had a crew of three-to-four people on stage left the entire night and she had a crew of the same on her side. My biggest problem was trying to move props around the cast, who were in the way a lot of the time and blocking my view of cues. The hardest prop to move on my side was the sofa. It was heavy and awkward and there is no way to move a wooden sofa quickly.
Using my left leg is a little awkward at the moment (it turned blue-purple from tapping into props and moving the sofa). It's fairly sore. Mum's taking me in for blood work this week. She's really worried that my anemia is worse than the doctor thought.
In other news:
~ Fatal Target is aproximately 1/4 of the way completed at 20,000 words. Projected finish date: mid-March
~ I loaded a short story I wrote earlier this year for AP Lit. It concerns the seven deadly sins. It ties in the most with Kill Zone.
~ I have been accepted into the two colleges I am seriously considering and they've both offered me scholarships.
~ It's just a little over a month before I get my life back a bit. Yearbook deadline is the first week of March. Yay for freetime! :-D