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Romeo and Juliet
1999 our school presented Romeo and Juliet together
with the Boys' High School. It was a superb production and some of the photographs from
the show can be seen in our front of
house.
Some of the experiences of the cast members are described here.
Being in Romeo and Juliet was great. Our creative and
inspiring director thought that in this day and age a Holy Sister might be more
interesting than a Holy Friar and I got to play this part. Being part of a school
production improves your social life enormously and I developed some great friendships
during the rehearsals. This was not the only benefit - a greater appreciation of
Shakespeare was one of the advantages academically. On the nights that we performed I got
a good picture of what professional theatre was all about. I loved being in the play and I
would do it all over again in a second.
Tamara Gondwe
This year our school's major production was Romeo and Juliet. With fairly ambivalent
feelings at the start I read various parts, telling our
drama teacher (in retrospect perhaps a little arrogantly) that I wanted to have a lead
role like Benvolio or Mercutio, or nothing at all.
I didn't get a part!
So the play and I parted.
It was only two months before opening night that I
became part of the cast of Romeo and Juliet. The person playing the part of
Prince was no longer in the play, and I took his part. At first I thought it was a waste
of time, what with all the rehearsals (three times a week) but gradually the play came
together and our first runthrough of the play was a great success. It was very fun and
exciting, especially the last three weeks of rehearsals.
The first month I was in the play I was a
bit shy and not very confident, because I hardly knew anyone and I had to learn all of
those lines. There was also the fear of not being as good as the guy who played Prince
before me. But
in the end it was a great success, a very enjoyable experience that I would have regretted
missing if I had not participated. I met a lot of new people and got to know people I
didn't think were that nice before. It was a fairly good learning curve for me.
Niki Hodson
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