The Drama troop takes a trip to Ashland Oregon

On May 11, the East Nicolaus drama troop took another exciting trip to Ashland Oregon to again celebrate the Shakespeare festival.  The students were excited to go to this trip, even if they had to be at school before 6am in the morning. Ms. Yocum the organizer of this great event  helped to make this happen, and with the help of other community members the drama troop were ready to go in the school vans.

“I thought it was a good bonding experience for the drama troop and it gave us a vibe of how drama is once were out of High school,” says Delilah Yang.

The Drama students had a fun trip going to Oregon, they got to have fun playing games, talk during the car ride, and they got to make stops in the way admiring the nature of Oregon. The students arrived just before a musical  they were thrilled to see what the actors were going to perform.  The students got to eat at a pizza place and explore the city of Ashland, seeing the different tourist shops.

Yang talks about the other performance, “They were both great plays and made everyone laugh, but my favorite would have been the Taming of the Shrew because the set was lovely and amazing, the costumes were pretty, cute and modern”.

The drama saw another performance named The Taming of the Shrew, this play was more modernized, and this play was actually modernized to normal English. The next day the students got to go to work shops, they got a tour of the stage that was being set up for the evening play; they got to know the history for the Shakespeare festival. “I really enjoyed looking at the costumes being designed, and I think it’s amazing how the costume designers make the costumes from scratch,” Carlena Granados said. With the help of Mrs. Wallace the students got the chance to go to where they make the costumes for the characters, and got to see how they were designed.

Solomani Namonasimalua was asked what he enjoyed most of the plays and he said, “I think the Oregon trip was fun and I think I learned more about how Shakespeare is in everything in our media and what we watch in romantic comedies and dramas and soap operas because it's like he made the original version of all of them”.