"100"
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 07:26AM Last night, our school presented a production of "100", a play by TheImaginaryBody of which I was lucky enought to be a part of. The premise is simple--imagine you've died, and you have one hour to choose a memory from your life to live and re-live throughout eternity. It focuses on four recently deceased people, from very different walks of life, who in turn have to choose their most treasured memory.
Being part of a play like this really opened my eyes to the amount of creativity and inspiration that goes into creating a story from a script. The set consisted of only four wooden blocks and a few wooden poles, with which we depicted a busy subway, an Amazonian rainforest, and an office Christmas party. This was theater at its most intense--stripped down scenery, minimalist props, a cast of only nine people, and the audience only a few centimeters removed.
When "100" was first performed for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the cast was only five people. Those five people supplied all the main roles as well as supporting characters, and literally became the props themselves. For example, if the scene required a house, a few actors would use their bodies to portray walls; some would be windows or a door.
As we were an amateur high-school group, we didn't have quite the skills needed to perform such feats of Physical Theater, yet we still had fun pretending to be sheep or throwing oranges around on stage.
Have you ever been part of a play, high school or otherwise? And if you had to choose one memory from your life to live over and over again, what would it be?
Reader Comments (1)
Wow this sounds like a very interesting idea and experience. The idea of "choosing" one hour to relive is intriguing...I wonder if that hour might become boring after a while.
I have not been part of a high school play but it sounds like a fun experience. Hmm...that's a hard decision. I don't know...