Kayelyn McCaslin
Reporter
As the school year progresses while adapting to COVID-19 regulations, incorporating some type of normalcy into the lives of students is a priority at DHS. Athletes have resumed their sports seasons and students have been able to safely participate in club activities.
This upcoming fall holds a new opportunity for students to be involved in a club activity: the DHS Trojan Drama Club’s fall production.
Though the thought of a school play happening seems foreign with social distancing policies, the Drama Club has come up with an alternative method to perform in an attempt to salvage their production season.
Unable to utilize DHS’s Little Theater due to renovations, the club’s recent promotion of fall auditions for a “virtual performance” is rather vague. To break-down what a “virtual performance” would look like, though, the head of the Drama Club has an explanation.
“There is no audience there, but you [actors] perform it like normal. We are not going to have our stage, so we won't have that area that we can work on. So the virtual performance will be us doing a show for anyone who wants to view it. It's not going to be like ‘You have to tune in on Thursday, November 10 at 7 P.M.’ We are going to create a video and then push that out on YouTube or some type of video format and we will send a link out so you can watch it at your convenience,” Drama Club Director Trevor Yarbrough said.
While this type of presentation is a much different experience than seeing a live show, Yarbrough hopes that this type of intimate performance will make do with the challenges that the club has faced when coming up with the idea.
In order to make this performance happen, both the cast and crew of the club will be dedicated to adapting to this learning experience to produce a memorable play for the club members and audience.
“This is going to be 100% a learning experience [for the Drama Club] We’ve got a lot of new students who are auditioning, but I know that our experienced cast members can take this on. If you can do that character on stage, you can do the character alone in a room. So I don’t have any concerns there, my biggest concern is equipment. If you zoom off of a Chromebook, how will that look if someone is watching it on a TV? If we filmed it with a regular camera, how would that look? Can we piece things together to make it look like it is happening in real-time even though it's not?” Yarbrough said.
Not only will this be a new experience for the students and members of the community that enjoys attending DHS’s fall and spring productions, but also it will be a new experience for the veteran club members who look forward to creating a set, organizing production and becoming a new character.
This will be a challenge that will hopefully prove to have a fruitful outcome for the fall production, but even with a positive result, Yarbrough does not hope to do a “virtual performance” any more than he has to.
“I want to get back into the theater. A huge part of why we are virtual right now is because of the renovations to the theater that are happening. If that wasn’t happening we may have the option to do a show on the stage, film it, and post it. If I have any choice in it, anyway that also keeps students safe, I would get them back on stage as soon as possible,” Yarbrough said. “Hopefully something in the Spring if things get better then we can get back in there and have our students back on the stage.”
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