Well, this year, one New Jersey high school proved that in space no one can hear you scoff.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Ridley Scott’s Alien Adapted Into Epic High School Play
Well, this year, one New Jersey high school proved that in space no one can hear you scoff.
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That was really cool. But all I could think was, are not there some copyright and royalty issues with putting on a show like this, even if it is only at a school. It looks really awesome, but as usual in early educational theatre, how much were the students involved with the design. It seemed like their art director did it all and the 6 students were just his worker bees. I think involving the kids in the creative process is just as important as those put on stage. As cool as it is, it is not original, it is just furthering this loop of taking famous films and reproducing them as faithfully as possible on the stage. I want books to be brought to life, there are plenty of books that are famous but have yet to be put on stage. If this school wants to do some gory horror show, let them adapt Good Night Moon into a slasher play where the cow jumping over the moon ends up dead in someone's bed drowning them in the blood.
What this high school was able to do with such a small budget is amazing. This high school took its performing arts department to the next level by deciding to do a show that has probably never been done as a play before. On top of this, these high school students took the production design one step further. With a very limited budget, the students went out and found any piece of scrap they could find, and then building their set out of all recycled materials. The pictures of this show are absolutely fantastic and really help showcase so many aspects of the design. It is so easy to see how much work went into every single set piece in the show. From glowing paint to integrated lighting all production departments seemed to work together very well. While this may be because there are such few students working on the production aspects of the show, it is impressive none the less.
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