The Drama Club performed its second play, Not Another Bedtime Story this year with performances from March 6 through March 8.
The play is about two siblings getting told a bedtime story by their jolly Mother, but as they got older it became more and more boring and less tasteful to the siblings. But the mother would insist every night for her jolly bedtime stories on the chu chu train but it was too childish for the siblings, so they confronted their mother and told her that they were all grown up and didn’t want to hear any more stories. The siblings went back and forth with their mother and caused a debate on why they shouldn’t do bedtime stories anymore since they were too old, the siblings thought. But in the end, they decided to keep bedtime stories only if it was more entertaining and mature for the siblings’ age, and if not, they would remove bedtime stories.
The Mother’s new story was about two lovers, a King and a Queen, becoming one with another and ruling over a distant land called a Sunflower Clove. The King Bunny Ears had a son named Hoppy Ears and the Queen Kitty Ears had a daughter named Princess Perfect-Paws. The King and Queen get captured by a very gloomy man who goes by Dr. Gloomy Gus, who also has a PhD! The gloomy man’s end goal was to make the people of that distant land as gloomy as him and make them suffer as he had with his ray gun that turns people gloomy. Hoppy-Ears doesn’t like the idea of having or working with his stepsister Perfect Princess-Paws but puts aside his emotions to save his father. As they go to save their parents, both parents are chained and trapped against a wall. Dr. Gloomy Gus corners them and starts blasting away. His ray gun turns both parents gloomy! Dr. Gloomy Gus fires his last shot at Hoppy Ears and surprisingly, Princess Perfect Paws lunges and saves him but gets shot doing so. Even when he was mean and hurtful just by the thought of her she still saved him. This action of kindness transformed and showed Hoppy ears the power of love, helping him to use this newfound love to save his sister from the gloominess and curing her. In the end, he used the power of love to save everyone and defeat Dr. Gloomy Gus and if I didn’t mention he has a PhD and lived happily ever after.
The father then steps in and tells his version of a story. The story ended up being too harsh for the siblings and the father toned it down enough for the siblings to want to listen to his story. His story was about zombies and how everyone got infected by the disease, but there was a group of people who were not infected and had to stay together to survive the apocalypse. But a zombie boy came out of nowhere and became friends with the humans and stayed together to find a cure. They then ran into the rest of the zombies but the zombie boy protected and defended the humans. Then they found themselves with the characters of the mother’s story and worked together to find the cure and help save the parents.
This school play was like no other. The scenery was well put together with images and color. The ambient lighting was on point and gave the whole play a dramatic feeling.
The characters of Dr. Gloomy Gus and Hoppyears stood out during the play. The person that played the role of Prince Hoppy Ears, Yair Olivares (12), was really unexpected and left everyone amused with such a fierce character with passion burning through his veins. His performance was on point with the lines and emotions needed to reach his audience.
Dr. Gloomy Gus, performed by Wolfgang Steen (9) was phenomenal. Dr. Gloomy Gus’ role required a tall and strong man, which Steen fit perfectly. It’s like he became one with his character. He played the role so well, the audience could imagine that it’s his natural self. His voice was really good and deep in the sense of tricking the viewers into really believing he was evil and sinister yet was so soft and soothing to the ears. Each time he was in a scene he stood out towering everyone around him because of his height.
The Drama Club did an amazing job at performing their tasks and making sure that the play was going as smoothly as possible. Everyone who helped in the play and signed up to perform did an outstanding job. Without the camera crew and lighting crew and the whole drama club, this play wouldn’t have been great.
The play was about 40 – 50 minutes long of pure entertainment and gave nothing but laughter to the crowd.
